I try to be kind to every single person I meet, it has said benefits, you open up their personality and understand them better. But as with all things it has a flip side. I have the tendency to be a pleaser and when there is abuse of that, or simply no acknowledgement, it can be depressing.
I guess I was thinking it as a kind of spiritual exercise, rather than something you do to make anyone happy with your smiles... The smiles mean nothing, really. What comes after that is what I find special. It's about taking proactive steps into growing that love, which is both universal and personal, instead of requiring circumstances to guide you there by the hand. Which it wont. Unless you're in a war, or something.
I see what you mean. I believe smiling often is mostly a personality treat, some of such personalities smile without deeper meaning.
A problem I seem to have is that i try to establish a deeper connection with many people and tend to get frustrated if it doesn't work out. Especially if it started with a wrongly interpreted meaningless smile.
If you could teach about those proactive steps, i'd be glad to be an apprentice.
