A couple of nights
ago while the band was entertaining the crowd with a well-known country song, I
watched on as a young boy was given a guitar pick while he patiently
listened to the band at a local touristy bar that surely his parents forced him
to go to because they aren't in Nashville every day. As he was handed the pick
and eagerly asked from the player on stage to stroke the guitar a few times,
his face lit up. It was real. Genuine. Amazing. Pure.
I continued to watch
on as his glowing, smiling face stared at the stage in ubber excitement, the pick never leaving the death
grip of his little fingers. In that moment I was reminded of how much a smile
really means. No matter how stressful life is, how upset one is, or whatever
else is going on in one's life, a true smile doesn't lie. Sometimes I look back
at pictures of myself and think: "Dang, Erin. That smile wasn't real. It
was forced, fake, and sad." Other times I see a smile upon my face
that couldn't be pretended no matter how hard I tried. It's real, exciting, and
full of happiness and love. That's how a smile should be, every time,
regardless of whatever is going on around us.
Emotions: They come
so naturally to children. When kids are happy, they smile. When they are sad,
they cry. As a person grows and matures, he trains himself to be tough and
disguise emotions in ways that are more socially acceptable. Smiles change
meaning and real emotions subconsciously get buried inside. It doesn’t have to
be this way though. Patterns are never too far gone that they cannot be
rewritten. One's smile can mean the same at adulthood as it once did during
childhood. We just have to remember the real meaning behind the emotion, and then it will be effortless.
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