Smile Please !

I don't know how many of us observe this in our social environment.It didn't strike to me conspicuously when in India.After being in Singapore for the past one month ,I could feel one big difference in the people ,

"The smile ".

I could realize the difference a small smile could make in our day to day life.It can revitalize the dormant energy lying in us.Its like a relaxing poultice for a vapid mind.

Right from the morning i could see smiling faces all around.Starting from the layman i cross over during my walk to the bus stop, bus driver, the co-passenger seated next and many more.

The biggest of all smiles i get influenced is the lab officer in my workplace , the smile which he greets in the morning is always refreshing .Each and every time when i ask him for any help he readily acknowledges with a lavish smile. Cha , every time i am haunted with bitter memories of the philistine lab assistants and the pedantic lab teachers ,i face in the normal lab classes in NITT.Even for a small thing like a old resistor or a half burnt and ramshackle breadboard , had to bear with the harsh words ,losing all the interest in doing the experiment.Imagine the change that a small cordial smile from either of them would make in us.More importantly , most of the faculty in NITT , respond to us gruffly ,as if they were GODs in their fields and also we were some menial people.This is demoralizing as a student losing all the interest in studies.I regained the penchant for studies only after coming here , seeing how cordial the profs are ,and the kindness of the supporting staff.

In India , i remember being greeted with a scorn , in almost all the public utility places(like passports , RTO , Bus Conductors , Watchman,hospitals ) more importantly in the police stations(for god sake, i hav not been there.But heard of the embarrassment faced by a common man there). This situation is never encountered anywhere in Singapore(rather all the developed nations)

Is this because people are happier here than in our country ?A small interaction shows though people here have their own problems , they don't want them to affect others.

Is that our people do not want others develop over them , or want to emphasize that they are burdened with over work ,etc,etc..??

Can smile can revive the interest in everyone's work, and like the butterfly effect can this lead to the overall development of the country. I am ponderingover it for a long time

So,Smile Please