Today, the whole world exchanged smiles

Today is World Smile Day. The day for the whole world to take a small action together: smile and help someone smile.

World Smile Day is celebrated annually on the first Friday of October. The idea for this day started with Harvey Ball, an American painter who created a smiley face. (Smiley Face) in 1963.

Harvey Ball.

After creating a smiley face, Harvey Ball realized that his invention was excessively commercialized. Harvey Ball's original good intentions when he invented the smiley face was completely forgotten, people only took advantage of his smiley face for rampant advertising campaigns.

The smiling face created by Harvey Ball.

This made Harvey Ball determined to act, calling on people around the world to celebrate World Smile Day. When sharing this idea, Harvey Ball once said: "We, each of us, in every day living in the world, take more care of our smiles and those around us. The smile is a common, understandable message, regardless of skin color, ethnicity, religion, politics . ".

The boy's smile in Lao Cai.The shy boy lives in a small village in the mountains of northern Vietnam.I hide in the trees to see foreign tourists.From the tree I said "Hello!"making the group of tourists both amused and excited.(Canadian author - Dave Mercer).

World Smile Day was first organized in 1999 , since then, every year, people around the world still celebrate this day.

After the artist Harvey Ball died in 2001, the Smile Fund World Harvey Ball was founded to honor the man who contributed a creative meaning to the world smile - the smile that we still have Give away everyday in the virtual world on the Internet.

The smile of her grandmother rowing passengers across the river in Hoi An.(Japanese author Rio Akasaka).

The smile that Harvey Ball created has also become the most recognized icon on the internet. Smilies are a symbol of goodwill - something that is essential for a peaceful and happy life on our planet.

The World Smile Day Message is "Make a small action - Smile and help someone smile".

"Integration smile" of Sapa girl.Language and cultural differences cannot limit the sympathy between people ". (Author Noni Andriani).

The world-famous American journalist Steve McCurry has also made an impressive picture called "The Common Language of the World" , very easy to understand, which is a smile. About this set of photos, he used a saying by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: "Often, joy is the source of smile, but sometimes, smile is the source of joy."

Smile, and joy will come to you. So, in World Smile Day today, laugh and help the people around you smile, so that one day in your world is filled with fresh smiles.

An Afghan family.

A Myanmar woman.

The old Cambodian.

Two Chinese boys.

The Indian man "saved" the sewing machine - the family's source of life.His smile still shines in the floodwaters.

Kashmir girl's smile.