😀😁🙂World Smile Day😀😁🙂
Today is World Smile Day, and wouldn't it be fantastic if everybody in the world smiled today?
Sometimes, a smile is all it needs to make somebody else happy and to cheer them up.
The iconic and hopefully most used of the emojis is Harvey Balls' little circle with an upturned curve and a few dots, and we are talking about the smiley face, which was the first emoji to enter the world, and it soon took on.
He created today devoted to the spreading of joy and love to everybody and he meant everybody, race, gender or where they lived. He died in 2001 but his foundation The Harvey Ball Smile Foundation has carried on his message of peace and love to others. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everybody has the same idea as him?!
Interesting information and facts about World Smile Day and smiling itself…
Let’s take a look at some interesting and surprising facts about World Smile Day. For example, did you know that 470 iterations of the smileys were made for Internet emoticons in 1999? That’s a lot of smiley faces, isn’t it?
Not only does the smiley face bring a lot of joy to people, but it’s making a lot of money too! Well, we suppose money makes people smile as well, right? We are sure that the guys in London, England, are smiling when they look at how much money the Smiley Company office is bringing in. After all, it is worth over $55 million per annum!
Did you also know that happiness is biological? When you smile, endorphins are created. These are neurotransmitters that cause feelings of pleasure. And do you know why the color yellow was used for the smiley face? Well, you might be able to guess this one! Yellow is the symbol of cheerfulness, so what better colour for a smiley face?
So knowing all that, let's celebrate World Smile Day and make somebody smile with either a smile or a small act of kindness, offer to do some elderly person's shopping, or go around just to say hi, are you alright? Phone somebody up for a quick chat or by somebody close a small gift. Whatever you do today, please smile, cos it is contagious, and the world could do with some happiness and love, and it will make you feel better as well.
