Smile

Smile

Of all the things in the world, there are few things that will elicit that fleeting feeling of warmth like a genuine smile. For you, the world changed on a day no one else would’ve noticed.

As you were leaving your meagre living space for work one morning, a heavenly voice called out to you.

“SMIIIIILE!” The brightly colored girl in a purple trimmed sailor outfit yelled at you.

She smiled as well, a gleeful expression of pure contentedness with the world. Her face may have been twisted into a strange shape by her unusual eyes, but there was beauty still in her figure and soul.

Smile eh? It wasn’t that hard, and just looking at the girl, there was a warmth in your heart. You found yourself smiling, happy just to be happy.

Thank you, you thought; for your gift, strange girl.

Just when you thought the encounter was over, the girl skipped forwards, stopping a distance from you.

“My dream is to make the world smile! Don’t doubt me, I believe in you too!”

Her pure irradiance spoke volumes to you. The natural perfection of her life’s philosophy ordered you to not complain about the little things, to never fret over errors so far beyond your minute “control” if you would even go as far to call it that. To live for yourself, but not in a selfish way. As the girl strode away, she clasped her hands together as if to pray, but soon threw them out as if she wanted to hug the world.

“NEPYGYAAAA!” She charges away, fleeing down a labyrinth of twisted alleys and side streets but the changes are complete. You want to make the world smile too.