Translate one's silence into a smile

Read this story in a book and I was moved—There lived a man with two kids and a wife. His family was going through adverse conditions. He was trying his heart and soul to make the two ends meet but he would always end up failing miserably no matter how hard he tried. He was fed up of his life and all the failures he had to face every day. He decided to end his journey by jumping into the water dam and become free from all the troubles of this world.

He left home when no one was aware and started walking towards the dam outside the city. On the way, he realized that he loved his kids and wife a lot and if he dies today, it would make their condition even worse than before. He would be responsible for their life long misery. But, since he was stubborn about his goal to commit suicide, he didn’t have the courage to return back even though deep down he still wanted to be with his family.

He then comes up with an idea which might save his life. He decides that if the next person he meets, smiles back at him without any reason, he would return back to his family and work hard like never before. Achieve something no one would ever have and make himself & his family proud. And if the person doesn’t smile, he would end his life. Just then, you meet him. His life is now in your Hands; more like in your Smile! This is the power of a Smile.

Our single smile has the potential to restore hope in the person. That things would go back to normal and he would achieve it big someday. That the world is still a good place and there is still a lot to try and try until it is marked in history. That dying is never an option no matter how broke a person is. You’re always the last to know what’s going on. You notice your opinion is far weaker than everyone else’s in the group.

There is a lot of silence and weird moments while you’re talking or just finished talking. Nobody defends you, and if they do, it’s very brief and barely effective. You get challenged a lot. Your accomplishments are minimized, or credited to someone else. Passive aggressive comments/notes/destroyed property etc…A smile to that person who betrayed you and now trying to make you feel right giving hell lot of excuses but deep inside you know the truth!! I guess this will best describe the deep but silent smile!!

Silent bullying is when you don’t talk to someone, ignore them deliberately, exclude them from your life or certain activities. They don’t make eye contact or any indication that they acknowledge you. It can be quite frustrating and very emotionally degrading as I have had it done to me. The best way to deal with it, is to be the bigger person and acknowledge them, say hello, be polite so that their forced to either say hello back or just make themselves look like a complete idiot as behaviour like that can run very thin and eventually if it’s not yourself who says something to them it will be someone else and anyone who does this to anyone is very immature and should be treated like a child as their definitely not acting like an adult. Cheers!