Translated by Zhang Bao with a smile

Smiling at each other, or at your wife, at your husband, at your children, or even at any stranger, will increase your love and friendship with other people.

Saint-Exupéry was a fighter pilot who was shot down and killed in World War II against the Nazis. Previously, he had fought in the Spanish Civil War against fascism. Based on his own experience, he wrote a story called "Smile". There is such a wonderful scene in the story that makes us deeply inspired by smiles.

He said he was captured by enemy forces and put in prison. The guard was a man with a murderous face and a very vicious attitude. The man's vicious appearance made him feel like he would be dragged out and shot tomorrow.

He said, "I don't think I'm going to survive." I felt terrified and uneasy in the extreme. I rummaged through my pockets and found a cigarette that hadn't been searched. My hands were shaking with nervousness, and it was hard to put a cigarette in my mouth. And I didn't have matches, so they took them. ”

"I looked at the guards outside the prison through the iron fence. But he didn't look at me, like he didn't care to look at an object or a corpse. I shouted at him, 'Can you borrow the fire?' and he looked at me, shrugged his shoulders, and walked over and lit a cigarette for me.

"When he approached me and lit a cigarette for me, his eyes inadvertently met mine. At this point, I smiled at him. I don't know why I'm like this. Maybe it's because of the nervousness, maybe it's because the two of them are so close at once, you can't help but smile at him. For whatever reason, I laughed at him. At this moment, this smile is like a spark, erasing the barriers in our hearts. I knew he didn't want to laugh, but my smile passed through the bars and infected him, causing the corners of his mouth to smile involuntarily. He finished lighting my cigarette and didn't leave, his eyes straight at me, still smiling at me.

"I kept smiling at him, as if he were my friend and not a caretaker. At this point, he looked at me not as viciously as before, but asked me, 'Do you have a baby?'"