Money vs Smile

Being forced by my work to travel across the world, I come across people from different areas of life, but there is one thing which is common in almost all cultures and people these days : They don't smile anymore, not as often they earlier did.

I wonder what brought about this change. Was it gradual? Is it something that happened all of a sudden?

This "I don't smile anymore" syndrome is more common in the RICH or the so-called "almost-there Superclass". Be it at the airports, in the plane, at supposedly expensive restaurants, hotels, designer showrooms or even in meetings... People present themselves as those overly-engrossed serious creatures who believe that smiling at someone is just so passe` and burying themselves in their blackberry phones and iPads is oh-so-posh.

I find it so funny...it is like an epidemic. In this constant race of finding ourselves, earning more money or attaining that overrated "peace of mind", we lose every bit of us and our minds.

Sometimes I feel like walking up to these people and telling them "Take it easy. Aisi ko aafat ni hain life mein. Nobody is going to steal anything from you if you smile at them. Aur fir muskurane pe koi tax thodey hi lagta hain"

Anyways, I hope some day people realize what they are losing on, in this stupid race of being a little more rich, a little more 'there'.

My dear Richie-Richs and the trying-to-be-richs, Money is supposed to make you happy, No?  Then why so sad? :P

Smile! coz it's okay to smile ;)

and I guess I am back...