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THE SMILE OF TODAY, THE TEARS OF TOMORROW
<p><br/></p><p>Today, smiles sit easily on our faces.</p><p>They wear no weight.</p><p>They dance like sunlight on a clear river.</p><p><br/></p><p>But elders say, the river that laughs today may drown a man tomorrow.</p><p><br/></p><p>We smile at borrowed joy.</p><p>We smile at shortcuts dressed as success.</p><p>We smile at applause that has no roots.</p><p>Like flowers cut from the stem, the beauty is loud but the life is short.</p><p><br/></p><p>Aristotle once said, “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”</p><p>Yet many trade character for comfort.</p><p>They sell tomorrow for the pleasure of now.</p><p><br/></p><p>Today’s smile is sweet like honey on the tongue.</p><p>But tomorrow’s tears are bitter like kola nut after regret.</p><p>As the adage goes, what you refuse to face in daylight will visit you at night.</p><p><br/></p><p>We laugh at warnings.</p><p>We joke with discipline.</p><p>We clap for ease and mock patience.</p><p>But life keeps records.</p><p>Life never forgets.</p><p><br/></p><p>Plato warned, “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”</p><p>Still, many choose the smile that costs nothing</p><p>and avoid the work that builds something.</p><p><br/></p><p>The smile of today is often painted.</p><p>Painted with filters.</p><p>Painted with lies.</p><p>Painted with noise.</p><p>But tears of tomorrow wash off every color.</p><p><br/></p><p>An old saying reminds us, the child who refuses advice follows sorrow as a companion.</p><p><br/></p><p>Tomorrow does not shout.</p><p>Tomorrow whispers.</p><p>It arrives quietly with consequences in its hands.</p><p>It collects unpaid debts from careless joy.</p><p><br/></p><p>Confucius said, “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”</p><p>We complicate it by laughing where we should learn.</p><p>We complicate it by smiling where we should reflect.</p><p><br/></p><p>Today, smile if it is earned.</p><p>Smile if it is clean.</p><p>Smile if it can stand in front of tomorrow without shame.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because the smile of today, when built on wisdom,</p><p>will not become the tears of tomorrow.</p>
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