These days, it's hard to smile sometimes. Days are hard and long, and there is a lot on people's plates. However, just that little smile can change not just your whole day, but the day of people around you. A smile can make you feel better, but simply giving someone a smile can make them smile and make them feel better. And then they will be more likely to smile at someone else. and it will keep going around. The following is a poem I wrote about how a smile can change everything.

Asleep I am not

Writing papers, reading assignments are a lot

Stress rising on up

The only thing keeping me sane is my cute pup

Getting ready for a musical

Hopes that it will come out beautiful

Along with this is the other three

But wishing sometimes that I could flea

Smile on their face

Stares from others in our space

A relationship of friendship and joy

That I get the joy to employ

Dancing to the music

Becomes o so therapeutic

Singing to the tunes

Almost like we are cartoons

Why do I do so much?

Sometimes it even becomes a crutch

But I think to myself all the joy I can bring to others

That my cares only become wonders

Two jobs, senior in college, and a boyfriend too

I think I bit off more than I can chew

Just keep swimming

Oh hell who am I kidding?

Let me take a breath

Just so I don’t come to my death

Slow down the pace

After all this isn’t a race

Making people around me grin

Is my trophy and my win

Enthuse others for the delight

Your day will become bright

I am sure of it you will see

Doing a good deed will become your glee

So, next time you feel like being sad, think of how far a smile can go. One act of kindness can change everything, even if that act is just a smile. A smile really can go a long, long way.