I'd Like To Make You Smile

 I’d Like To Make You Smile

I’d like to make you smile, but I know that a smile can’t always happen when you want it, in yourself or in someone else. Even so, it hurts me to see you so unhappy.

I can’t deny that you are entitled to be unhappy. Life is difficult right now, for you and for so many people. My life isn’t easy right now, either. I’m not sure when’s the last time I smiled myself.

I’ve heard people say that if you smile when you aren’t feeling like it, it can improve your mood.Stanislavsky psychology - no, wait, it’s the other way around, isn’t it? Stanislavsky said to invoke the right emotion in yourself or you couldn’t convey it to the audience.

That’s why I’m afraid to say anything, and I’m just walking beside you without saying anything - I’m afraid to say the wrong thing. Not afraid to make myself seem stupid, but afraid to hurt you worse when you’re already feeling so poorly.

But every time I look over at you, I see how sorrowful you look and it makes me feel so bad for you. Gee, am I making your well-being a higher priority than my own? Why, that just might mean that I love you. Here we are, living together and about to be married, and there’s a definite possibility that I love you. Who’d have thought?

If only I knew how to articulate that thought. Shouldn’t be that hard.

“If I had a choice, I think I’d make you smile, rather than me.

“Hey, did I just make you smile?”

The Magic Eight-Ball says, "A smile is a good thing."