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Hiding Behind Smiles

It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
Sherrilyn Kenyon

I posted this quote up on Facebook yesterday as my status, and got quite a few ‘likes’ and comments on it.

It expresses the thoughts that I often think of when I see people that I don’t know—what their road in life has been like and what their life’s story is, or how they made it to where they are now—whether that’s complete and total happiness and loving life, or being at rock bottom and hating life.  If only we’d take these hidden stories into account before being so quick to decide on what someone must be like, or how someone is, and realize that life is hard, and everyone’s comes with sacrifices, losses, and heartache that we often never see, we would better our society, not to mention humanity.