Friday 4 October 2024

World Smile Day 2024


Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling, too.
I passed around the corner, and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized, I’d passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile, then I realized its worth,
A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected
Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

[Karen McLendon-Laumann]

World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday in the month of October every year. The message of the World Smile Day is “Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.”

The idea of World Smile Day was coined and initiated by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts. He is known to have created the yellow Smiley Face in 1963. The World’s first World Smile Day was held in the year 1999 and has been held annually since.

After Harvey died in 2001, the “Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation” was created to honour his name and memory.

The slogan of the Smile Foundation is “Improving this world, one smile at a time.”

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