Say Cheese!

According to research, smiles and laughter add  a few years to your life span. A new week it is.. Yesterday started with the not-so-good reports of the murder of 22 people in a village in the state of Kaduna, a northern Nigerian city where recently there has been an insurgency of attacks on the good citizens by Boko Haram and other groups. A reason to smile? No!

We also learn from the news of the Taliban's threat to a fourteen year old girl in Pakistan who survived a gun shot to the head on first attack for her involvement in promoting the girl-child education in her small town. Malala would be a refugee in the United Kingdom.. as the UAE has volunteered in sponsoring her medic trip there. Terrorist groups versus fourteen year olds? sad!

It seems like everyday we read the news or watch TV or listen in on the radio, its one violent report or the other. We are no longer in shock about politicians living in excess wanton wastage while citizenry languish in abject poverty and hunger... Our mindsets have been re-tuned to accept the normalcy of the situation.

We do say "cheese" though.. with a lot at the back of those worrying minds. Cheer up people! Its another week of more disheartening reads (not a curse)... And do smile -reports say its an anti-aging solution.