Bring in the New Year with HAPPY SMILES!!!

The rationale and the risks that make us want to welcome the new year with the bang are all controversial, to say the least. But we can share the happy feeling, founded on hopefulnessm, in the coming of tthe new year by showing our happy smile to one and all. Let's make that a "magnetic field" of really deepseated happiness in our hearts. Bring in the New Year with HAPPY SMILES!!!

Here's one way to do this really well and really happily:
1. read my poem below (written way back in May 1999)
2. choose which reason for smiling you like best; feel and remember the reality of that reason in your own life.
3. send the photo of your "smilingest"face, with some sort of explanation why you like the line that you like best in the poem, and send to your facebook friends or via your emails.
4. Smile at yourself in the mirror.
5. Smile at whatever feedback you'd get. Most people would simply smile back! Smile at that, too!

Now here's that poem...

Smile…

for health, the synergy
. of all dynamic systems
. of the body,

for symbiosis, the life-sustaining
. synergy of all living bodies,

for integrity, the synergy of one’s
. thoughts, words and deeds,

for friendship, the synergy of lives
. that deeply touch one another,

for marriage, the synergy of lives
. vowed to be intertwined till the end,

for ‘kapatiran’ or siblinghood,
. the synergy of bondings that last,
. as ‘fellow-cuttings’ from the same
. womb, branch out and grow apart,

for family, the synergy of marriage,
. parent-child love, and siblinghood,
. born and nurtured in the warm
. embrace of home,

for teamwork and healthy organizations,
. the synergy of common and diverse
. mental, spiritual and physical
. capabilities for the same aims,

for earnest conversations, the synergy
. of information, views and feelings
. that are shared with honest humility
. and heeded with genuine respect

for ‘bayanihan’ and the cooperatives,
. the synergy of community resources
. and efforts for the common good,

for nationhood, the synergy of people
. sharing blood, domain and heritage,

for planethood, the “Earth Synergy”
. of all nations and races, of all species,
. of all land, air and water,
. and of all their energies,

for collective wisdom,
. the synergy of diverse learnings
. of diverse minds,
.
for the Universe, the synergy of all
. that exist, known and unknown,
.
for the great and glorious
. Cosmic Consciousness,
. the loving Creator
. and Synergy of ALL synergies…

Smile for the synergy of all our smiles,
. happy and proud to be part of it all.