It was during my
freshman year, during haze week of all times that I realized what my
mother was trying to say. We will always have to deal with not so nice
people every once in awhile, that's just life. Some of them will be darn
right mean and nasty for reasons you will never understand. The trick
is to take away their power. And the best way to do that is to Smile.
Smile at them every chance you get. Smile at them when they are calling
you names. Smile at them in the hall. Smile at them in gym class. Smile
at them so much that they forget why they were being mean to you just
long enough to consider getting a restraining order against you!!! You
can Never smile too much!! Mean people can not defend themselves against
random, unexplainable kindness.
I can remember being terrified of the girl that was my "Senior". I
heard all kinds of rumors that she wanted to beat me up and that she was
planning to humiliate me in front of the whole school. And for what?
She didn't even know me before last week. That's when I decided to just
Smile. I smiled when she put me in a ridiculous costume and made me
dance on stage. I smiled when she made me sing Rod Stewart's " If you
think I'm Sexy" to the entire senior class at lunch. I even smiled when
she told me to chant her name over and over and over again. Funny thing
is, for the first time all week she wasn't smiling. She finally realized
that not all the mean in the world could ever kill my smile.
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