Smile

Whenever somebody flashes a smile your direction, what do you make of it? Unlike a mirror, one that is incapable of deception, a smile boasts the unique ability of possessing several different meanings. The mirror will tell you as it is while a smile works to truly mess with your mind. We’ve been taught to associate a smile with positivity, but does this positivity benefit the giver and the receiver, or does it mean happiness for one and hurt for the other?

Her face twists up into a smile, emitting a glow of beauty across the room. He’s proud of himself because he’s made the love of his life happy. He responds with a look on his face to match hers, reminding her that they’ll always have each other. The complexity of their love exists within the simplicity of a smile.

The little boy’s face drips with blood, trickling down towards his mouth where a smile used to be. It is no longer existent. The violence and hatred of his peers have taken the smile he once had for good, and they’ve used it for the purpose of evil. Their smile emits a darkness the little boy is uncomfortable with, reminding him of the darkness he bathes in within the boundaries of his own mind. Even inside him, his smile can’t penetrate the ridicule and hurt they’ve inflicted on his innocent soul. Never has a smile destroyed him like this.

She walks through life with a smile engraved on her tortured soul. Everybody’s jealous of the smile that she’s seemingly proud to wear upon her face, but what’s the real story behind this smile? We don’t know if it’s a smile that hides a violent history, or if it’s a genuine smile that encourages progression, that everything is going to be okay. Her smile is a visible scar from the damage done on the inside.

There’s a vast amount of interpretations that you can make about a smile. You just never know what the other person is thinking and you won’t know what their smile indicates. As far is I know, it’s just a crack in your soul.