The beauty of a smile

Subject: The beauty of a smile.

The beauty is in a smile. The same person grimaces and you immediately know to adjust your own projection (that's what we do) to suit the needs of the occasion. People with a sunny disposition take people with them, who can disagree with a grin, who can overcome a peal of laughter with a serious debating comment, who would want to douse a happy person with your own reality.
The importance of the visual signal is possibly more important than the verbal message. For one we take what people say with a pinch of salt but rarely disbelieve the smile or the laugh  but then that is exactly what an actor does for a living. Of course the actor is in the business of creating a Dopplerganger, they have a storyline to follow and the character they depict is plastered all over the billboards.
The politician on the other hand has storyline which flows from a need to manipulate our minds for the purpose of their being installed into a position of power. No one would suggest that the actor wants to influence for power alone. Other than perhaps Ronald Reagan, the actors mental process is the artistic representation of a fictional character, in fact the more zany the character the higher the kudos for the actor.
But in our ordinary life we judge others on how 'they' act, specifically towards us, and in which the most defining feature is the face.
The face doesn't tell it all but it sets the mood for any discussion we have. The smile softens the whole process of assimilation, it assumes there is a caring interconnection based on the assumption that through the other persons apparent  happiness, we are invited in and not shut out. From then on anything can happen but it will be most likely be a positive interaction.
So today when you meet someone, even someone you are sceptical about, smile and you will be amazed at the result.