Its in the smile!

Many people do not realise the power of small acts that they usually take for granted. Slight differences in attitude that can change your life, and those of the people around you.
What must be understood beforehand is that, yes everyone has a different life, and some people undergo more suffering than others. But everyone does indeed suffer to a degree. Such is life; but have you ever seen two different people react to the same situation in completely different ways. Where they both suffered the same incident, but one continued to smile while the other was close to completely breaking down? Well thats because all people react differently. The fact that we all have a certain degree of control on how to react is a very important thing to realise, because you can totally avoid uselessly painful circumstances because of it!

Now back to my point; if one was to suffer in great quantity and frequency, they will ultimately come to a fork where they have to decide. Many don't ever realise when they reach that fork of decisions and those are the unlucky who need the help of those around them to see where they are heading. While the others who realise the existence of that fork are tasked to make a very difficult decision that demands huge courage on their part.
To one side of the path, you have self pity and endless regret or guilt. That is the steep downhill path that one can easily find themselves in. A path that will sour the rest of your future life until you decide to get off it. A path that will change and shape your very character and personality...and eventually make you bitter. It will change you into someone who pushes everybody else away, and you will keep on pushing, until at one point everyone will have given up on you and you will remain bitter till the end of your days...trapped by your own hollow thoughts that think only bad of humanity as a whole for giving up on you. In a way, it seems completely hopeless, to help someone as such. But it is not, it is the weak mindedness of people, their lack of faith in themselves and those around them that eventually lead them to think there are hopeless people in this world. However...;

Nothing is devoid of hope

All it takes is some good will, some faith and a little bit of stuborness to get through and shine that small light they need. No one is immune to influence, and when this is said, many people think of negative influence! That in itself is quite sad! Yes there are many events in history that provide evidence and just cause to think in this way, but that does not mean it should be our only way!

Its all to do with our attitude and the way we see things.
Its all to do with how we accept it and deal with it.
Its all to do with the faith we have in others, and more importantly, in ourselves.
It would be unreasonable to say 'never let anything bring you down'.
But not so to say 'don't ever let anything ever keep you down!'
All it takes is one thing, to make it all better again. It will bring others from that putrid path of endless hate, back to the path of faith.
Its definitely worth a try, afterall; it costs nothing, but is worth everything.
Especially when all it takes, is a simple smile =)