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   Many people know the story "the little prince"  by  "Saint Exupery" . but maybe not all know that he was a martial pilot and fought with Nazis and was killed. He was fighting with the dictatorial Franco in Spain before the start of world war II. He had gathered his wondrous experiences in a collection in the name of "Smile". He writes in one of his reminiscences that they captured him and incarcerated, he that guessed from violent behaviours  of wardens that tomorrow will be executed writes:

   I was sure they will execute me so that was extremely  nervous .searched my pockets hope to find a cigarette that might not been seen by them as they inspected my all cloths ,I found one put it on my lips with tremulous  hands but didn’t have any lighter .I looked at my warden through parapets. he even didn’t take a glance on me, exact like a sculptured was standing there. I shouted " hey buddy ,do you have a lighter? " he regarded me and shrugged his shoulders and came toward me. came closer and ignited his lighter, unintentionally his look dropped in my look .

   I smiled and don’t know why ? maybe  because of intensity of anxiety , maybe because I was standing so near to him and could not to smile. anyway I smiled and as if a light poured the distance between our hearts I knew that he doesn’t want such thing nowise but the warmth of my smile passed through parapets and smile bloomed on his lips as well .he lit the cigarette  but didn’t go ,stayed there and looked straight into my eyes and smiled ,knowing that he is not a keeper but a human smiled at him, his looks got different manner ….

   He asked " do you have any kid?"  I took out my wallet with vibrant hands  and showed him the picture of my family and told " yes ,it is" he also showed the photos of his children and spoke to me about his all wishes and plans for them.  Teardrop rushed to my eyes. I told that I scare if I couldn’t see my family again .no longer see how my kids grow up .his eyes too became full of tears .

   Suddenly without saying a word unlatched the lock of my ward and took me out .afterward he led me to the road that conduced to the city ,reaching  near the town ,left me and retuned back without saying anything!

A smile saved my life !

 Yes a smile without planning , accounting , natural smile ,the most beautiful man’s connective bridge .

  We make the layers to protect ourselves .the academic qualifications and degrees layer , the position layer and that we like people see us as we are not.

  Under the all these layers ,the true and precious ego conceals .i don’t have any fear to entitle it as Soul, I believe that it’s the soul of men which communicates with each other and these  souls don’t have any enmity together .unfortunately our soul under the layers were create by us so terribly  separate us from each other and make distances between us and cause our loneliness .

  The Exupery’ story is story of mystery instant of union of two souls that human feel this spiritual union when falling in love or looking at a newborn. Why do we smile when see a  baby? Because we see the man that didn’t cover any layers which were named, over his natural  ego and with his all and without any alloy smile at us  and that’s in fact our immature soul that responses to his smile.

 According to Victor Hugo says:

Smile is the shortest distance between two people and nearest road for attracting hearts.