Innocent smiles

I think I have already talked about the little children here, which can be very funny, particularly when they look at me shyly, with a half-made smile in their mouths, because, in fact, I am different. Many are very pretty, although there is a number of them that, maybe because of the way they are dressed up or just because they are like that, are rather ugly.

Today, when I was going back home with the bus after a successful raid of one of the Ikea stores in Taipei, there was a couple sitting in the row ahead of me with a probably around one-year old baby —two teeth above, three below— very pretty, with very big eyes, that was standing all the time. Suddenly, she discovered me and, as expected, looked at me fixedly and, as soon as I smiled at her, shone a big beautiful toothless smile, almost laughing. And she repeated that several times.

As somebody who knows what he is talking about once said, you only need a smile to wash away your worries. Certainly!, and I also remembered some things I should never forget.