SMILE: Our Greatest Sword

        Behind those smile there's a story you would never understand. In spite of all the problems and challenges that every Filipino have been faced they still manage to smile. Their brain say's that they are okay, but everyone's heart was shouting that they are not. Because they are only human, they bleed when they fall down, and they crash and break down, but outside those walls, they are still smiling and laughing out loud, hiding all the pain and tears from the crowd, but the truth is they are hurting inside. That's what really a Filipino is.

        It was in the month of November in the year 2013 when the super typhoon Yolanda attacked Visayas, particularly on Samar and Leyte. According to my research about 11 million people were affected, and many were left homeless. The world recognizes the resilience of the Filipino spirit. Because even after experiencing the worst disaster, they always find a reason to smile and laugh. Even we are a victim too, we still manage to help others. Resilience have marked strength in every citizens, but at the end of the day, the greater challenge. After a typhoon or earthquake is always "how to rebuild our community". In spite of the disaster, we never lost the hope to continue to live our life, but instead, we find reason to smile, to laugh and to be happy. Knowing in the next day, you don't know how to continue your life again, without clothes to wear , food to eat, and a house to live. But we still have our sword, we still have our shield, and that is our smile.

        Every smile, hides so many feelings, fear, sadness, heartbreak but it also show one other thing, the strength. Smile helps us to kill the sadness, the hatred. In every smile we forget that we have a problem. We always have that strength, because every smile gives us the strength to continue our life, to fix our ruined life. Don't let the word change your smile but rather let your smile change the world.