We smile, to show our pleasure or amusement in something or with someone. In fact, smiling seems to be an expression with which we are born, for most babies smile during the first weeks of life.
It has been suggested that a baby begins to realise within its first year of life that a smile is a ‘good’ expression because it is greeted with pleasure by its mother. The smile develops, sometime after the twentieth week of life, into laughter but there are great differences between the frequency of laughter and smiles of individuals.
As the child grows up, the action of smiling becomes bound up with a growing awareness of what is socially acceptable in certain situations. In an adult it is difficult to be certain whether the response is truly emotional or not.
Smiling is one of the most expressible things done by humans. Most times it is involuntarily, while many times it is not. In either case, smiling is something that makes us feel good about ourselves and others. Smile!
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