SEC S4-W3 | A smile to change the world - #burnsteem25

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Hello great minds,

It is a great privilege to appear before this strong community, in an attempt to be among the participants of this great engagement contest.

This community happens to be one of the strongest community we have on steemit as it is filled with hard-working moderators and dedicated admins.

This week's contest happens to be very unique and different from others, this contest centers on creative writing.

It requires us to tell about our happy moments, please stay tuned as I begin my entry.

WHAT MAKES YOU SMILE?

For formality sake , I will explain smile to be a kind, pleased, happy facial expression on an individual's face, mainly with edges of the lips turned up and the teeth being opened.

We all know what it means to smile as we all smile everyday.
There are different reasons humans smile. An action that causes one to smile might cause the other to frown.

There are lots of things that makes me smile as a person, it might actually make others smile or frown, some of them are:

• RIGHT ASSOCIATION:

Associating with individuals that are of the same mind as mine makes me smile a lot, and such individuals are usually my friends.

There is no boring moment with my friends, whenever I feel sad/depressed, they are always there to cheer me up and make me smile.

Having the right association can indeed make one smile.

Shown above is a picture of my friends and I smiling, indeed wholesome friendship brings joy the heart

• COMEDY SKITS:

Another Important activity that makes me smile frequently is watching comedy skits.

I frequently visit YouTube just to download some comedy skits and Interesting movies, this also helps to put smile on my face.

• PLAYING/VIEWING FOOTBALL:

I am a big fan of football and I derive lots of joy playing/watching football.

Whenever the team I'm supporting scores, it lightens my mood and puts lots of smiles on my face.

IMPORTANCE OF HAPPINESS.

Happiness as we know it can be literally explained to be the absence of sadness, it is the feeling of being uplifted in heart, and this feeling comes with lots of advantages and some of them are:

• Happiness takes away our pains and sorrow.
• Happiness makes you healthy
• Happiness kills depression and brings joy to the heart
• Being happy helps you to make friends with others easily
• Happiness makes one looks younger
• Happiness helps to increase one's productivity
• Happiness help prevent heart problems
• It helps create beautiful memories
• In overall, happiness helps one live a meaningful life.

HAPPIEST MOMENT OF YOUR CHILDHOOD

The happiest moment of my childhood happened a very long time ago which is expected.

When I was a kid, I loved to ride bicycle very much and I am good at it but unfortunately my bicycle was spoilt.

Then all of a sudden, a friend of mine got a new bicycle, I was so happy for him and I thought, alas, there is a bicycle we can all ride together.

Unfortunately, I never knew that my friend had a different plans for his bicycle, he refused to allow me ride on his bicycle, with the excuse that his parent would complain.

I became very sad and had to plead with my mother to help me repair my bicycle that had gotten spoilt.

I pleaded with my mother for days of which she turned a deaf ear, then on one faithful day when I came back from school, I saw a brand new bicycle in my compound.

At first, I didn't want to believe it was mine until my mother told me she got it for me, that I have been too persistent.

I was so happy that I jumped on her just to thank her.
Immediately I took my bicycle outside and began riding it.
That was the happiest childhood moment I have.

HAPPIEST MOMENT CURRENTLY (NO MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO)

As a young adult, we are always filled with busy schedules, work after work and very little time for rest.

Also being a student has been hectic in my country, moving from classes to classes just to take lectures.

Eventually, we wrote exams and went to our various houses, getting home and seeing my family in good hey made me very happy.

Not only that, the following day my family and I went for some shopping and we bought lots of goodies, I was very happy and satisfied at the end of the day.

It was a very pleasing feeling to be united with one's family again.

IF HAPPINESS WERE THE COLOR, WITH WHICH WOULD YOU RELATE IT?

If happiness were the color, I would relate it to be a white colour.

I would relate it to be white because white usually signifies purity, cleanliness, peace and progress.

All these quality can only be possessed by an happy person.

Another reason why I would relate happiness to white is because if we are not careful someone else can ruin our happiness.

Just as the color white is, if not properly guided it can get stained by anything.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS?

Personally, I feel the key to genuine happiness is by obeying all the commandments from our God above.

Following His command will bring us lasting peace and happiness and some of his commands are:

• BE CONTENTED:

One quality one needs to have to be happy is contentment.
Discontentment has really tampered with the happiness of so many.

When an individual is not contented, he always want to have more to himself and as such he is always working, trying to attain higher heights.

Such individuals will never be happy as he will spend his whole life climbing the ladder of success.

To be truly happy, we need to be contented with whatever we own.

CONCLUSION

I sincerely appreciate the host of this contest, as this contest has helped us to examine what happiness truly means.

It has also help us to trace the key to happiness, and I have provided answers to all required questions.

I look forward to participating in the next contest.