A smile can heal???

The other day I was travelling by our very own Mumbai local train.It was not very crowded but all seats were occupied and I was comfortably standing.At around Bandra I managed to get a seat and amidst the plethora of thoughts and my personal tensions ,I sat down.My body got the well deserved rest but my mind didnt???Due to certain personal incidents during that period I was extremely upset and disturbed...moreover I was travelling alone that day which added fuel to fire...It was one of those rare days when my heart had taken over my brain or intellect or ....call it by whatever name you like ....... after a big and deadly battle between the two...And as they say..there is no winner in a battle because both the sides are at a loss...life,property,success and above all morale...

And here the battle was between 2 entities both connected to me and the defeat of either one was my loss in the end...that was exactly what was happening and I could realize the toll on my work,health and more importantly my self belief and my self-confidence!!!

I tried to look around and made some unsuccessful attempts at changing the rhythm of the thoughts by observing what the others in the compartment were up to.But every face had a similar story to tell...Some were fast asleep,all emoceans hidden behind the fatigue which had forced the slumber.

Except one..one face...which I cant forget all my life...A face which was like the first ray of the sun which destroys darkness and brings light into the world...like the calm waves of a mighty ocean which bring serenity and peace to every heart they meet..eyes which lavishly spread love and happiness around.. to every other eyes they meet and something else.... above all this....A SMILE......a smile which tears apart all sorrows...

She was a tiny girl..around a year old travelling with her mom comfortably resting on the throne of the mother's lap.Her name was MILONI and she was the one who was interacting with everyone in the compartment...I was observing her since the time I was standing and the first time our eyes met she gave me an expression as if we knew each other since ages and seeing me was one of the happiest occassions of her life.Her smile attracted me so much that all that battle ,all those thoughts instantly vacated my mind and her contagious smile infected me just as it had infected everyone else around...an infection I was most happy to get.There was so much she wanted to speak butdue to her tender age she had to rely solely on her eyes and face to do the talking.After some time I got down at the desired destination and as I turned behind to see her,she greeted me again with that magnetic smile,as if trying to tell me,

"Look at my smile...Is any trouble of your life big enough to ignore it!!!Do you have the courage to think about anything else in the world after seeing it???No way...I challenge you...Even after we part...it will continue to rule your mind."

Most of us have heard and believe that kids smile to attract attention..but it's not completely true......It is Almightys plan to teach us that no trouble is so big that a smile cant heal it.This is just one example..I have had several instances with my nephew..Varun...Touchwood..but he smiles so often and one may feel he is trying to grab attention...but I feel his smile is a cosmic connection..He is an angel sent by God to give us a message that we have to smile amidst all troubles...If we can do that half the battle is already won!!!

I am not saying this out of nowhere...It's a tried and tested experiment.After getting down from the train that day I was thinking about the power of this tiny girl in washing off my tensions...a task which even I could not do was done by a total stranger..and then I told myself...What if I myself try and smile when I am in an emotionally low state of mind..Her smile may be a pain killer-but at some point of time a pain killer ceases to heal and what is required is something which can attack the root cause of the problem. That weapon is nothing but a capacity to face the problem from the front and and what better than a smile....the greatest foe of all problems to do this....

I may not have got an answer to my problems but I got something much more important...-A formula!!!And in life as in Mathematics, an answer can be of help for one problem but a formula can help you in any problem (read situation),is'nt it?

Want to know what the formula was??...Read along...

A smile is a weapon which confuses your troubles because they think they have killed your ability to smile long back ,then it attacks them and finally destroys them with the help of other weapons like patience,courage and determination...Even if it's not possible to destroy the troubles ,a smile gives us the strength to accept the fact that the problem or the trouble will continue...but there are other better things in life worth living for and for the sake of those things these troubles have to be pushed to the backseat...

A smile may not be the strongest weapon and it's not even the most indispensable one..because several battles have been won without it..BUT...there is no denying the fact that it's one of the most effective ones...to combat troubles...and a child is the greatest messenger of this lesson which God wants to teach all of us.

A child is a ray of hope which comes in the world to destroy the darkness and the plight of pain with a charismatic smile....

Paradoxically, a storehouse of both innocence and invaluable lessons of life..

As the reverend Rabindranath Tagore rightly quoted
"Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity."