Smile

If someone would ask me what a beautiful life means, I would lean my head on your shoulder and hold you close to me and answer with a smil. :)

SMILE - Passage

Smile can make people glad. Love can make people trust. Hate can make people mad ... But friends? They make life worth living for!

Smiling Child

Dhyaan gave a nice smile while he was given instruction to smile for a good shot.

Smile genuinely to live longer

Good morning friends. How often do you smile? If you’re are going to smile, do you think it has to be a good reason for you to smile? If you want to live longer, one way is to smile. Smile genuinely. That’s what they said. Many said that the secret to live a grand old age is to smile, and make sure you mean it.

There is one pro baseball players in the 1950s who genuinely beamed in their official photographs tended to live longer than more sullen-looking sportsmen and those who put on fake smiles. There are players from the US major league with honest grins lived an average of seven years longer than players who didn't smile for the camera and five years longer than players who smiled unconvincingly.

Happy people tend to be healthy too. Some researchers wondered if this relationship would be reflected in the smiles and longevity. Genuine smiles are known as Duchenne smiles after the 19th-century neurologist who defined them in detail. They engage muscles both near the corners of the mouth and around the eyes - the zygomatic major and the orbicularis oculi respectively. Fake, ‘non-Duchenne’ smiles exercise only mouth muscles.

With training, these muscles are easy to recognize in photographs. Thus, the researchers were trained to analyze smiles, looked at vintage photographs of 230 major leaguers who played in the 1952 season. The researchers classified them as non-smilers, Duchenne smilers or non-Duchenne smilers. Then they looked up the life spans of some players who had already died. They found that out of the dead players, Duchenne smilers had tended to live the longest, followed by non-Duchenne smilers.

The researchers also tend to predispose people to longevity, such as a university education and good health. They found an even firmer link between strength of smile and length of life. People who didn't smile had just a 50% chance of surviving to 80%, all other things being equal, whereas those with Duchenne smiles had about a 70% chance of surviving to this age.

Overall, 35% of the differences in lifespan correlated with smile intensity. Some conclude that people who smile genuinely in photographs "may be basically happier than those with less intense smiles", making them more likely to experience the health benefits of happiness, which has been linked with lower levels of stress hormones and a protein implicated in heart disease.

Happy Patel Boys

Formal looks but pleasant smile with the Patel boys.

Happy Face Mug

There are a lot of thing we can do to make us happy. It depends on us on how we will do it. I'm sure with this smiling mug, you will also be happy. Happy drinking.

Photo courtesy: larose

A Smile in you Heart

I had a feeling that you're holding my heart

And i know that it is true

You wouldnt let it be broken apart

Cause it's much to dear to you

Forever will be together, no one can break us apart

For our love will truely be a wonderful smile in your heart
When the night comes and i deep in your heart

I want feel so much more secure

You wouldnt let me close my eyes

So i can see you true and

a sweet tender lover, we are so much in love

Im not afraid when you're far away,

just give me a smile in your heart
You brighten my day, you're showing me my direction

You're coming to me and giving me inspiration

How could i ask for more from you my dear

Maybe just a smile in your heart
I'm always dreamin' of being in love

But now i know that this is true

Since you came into my life

It's true love that i had found

Afraid that you wouldnt leave me

What ever may come along

But if you do i wont feel so bad

Just give me a smile in your heart