Part II – how it all started and showed me the POWER of a SMILE!
One story I didn’t include in my blog, yesterday. I had ’stood up’ to a powerful
management/uniformed/gun toting figure at a meeting where I used to work
(policing agency) I ’spoke up’ in a sexual harrassment training session when he
made fun of some point. He then ordered me to leave.
Well – things got hairy, even though I had many supporters, but too many were
afraid to speak up, understandably!
A few weeks later, I encountered him exiting an elevator. He saw me, dropped
his head and was ready to walk on -
BUT – a funny thing happened. I decided to just give him one of my closed mouth
smiles – he saw it – his entire body, shoulders and face lifted, brightened,
lightened up!
I had decided we had agreed to disagree and there was no point in allowing it to
drag us both down. I could see the RELIEF on his face – this high
level/uniformed/powerful man who had ’shrunk himself down and dropped his
head’… THE POWER OF THAT SMILE – what POWER it had to dissipate anger.
That’s why my SMILE CAMPAIGN is so personal and means so much to me.
thank you for allowing me to share … ;o)
Highlighted – Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Spread those SMILES by the MILES and watch how the power of a soft smile can dissipate anger.
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p.s. I dropped your name on Gina's post, Barb. ;)
I also believe in the power of a smile to lift someones day….My Mother often beseeched me to smile when I was young, and called my smile the Mona Lisa smile….I didn’t like my teeth, and also was very shy and uncomfortable with myself back then. Now at the older age of 55 I have found myself….actually it was probably about 5-10 years ago, and then when I became a Grandma, I had every reason in the world to think beyond myself and Smile! I don’t center on my teeth or how I look, I think about what I want to share with others….It may only be a smile…but it can change a persons day….=]