The Wonders of a Smile

This is for Thursday and Friday!!


For a while now, since Blue Bloods started running on TV, I've noticed something.  Tom Selleck just doesn't want to smile.  Whether he is Jesse Stone or the police commissioner on Blue Bloods, there is rarely a hint of a smile on his face.

He's always the flawed character that carries around a lot of baggage.  In Jesse Stone, he has an alcohol problem and has lost two jobs.  In Blue Bloods, his son died and his wife died.

See a pattern here?  You have to wonder if Tom Selleck has a secret side that he wants to portray brooding, sad people so much of the time.  I miss a smile!!

I don't care what someone's teeth look like or if they smile like Clarabell the Clown.  A smile is a wondrous thing and it brings more smiles and more smiles.  A smile is contagious.  It makes a person real.

From a quick scan of Wikipedia, Selleck seems to have a wonderful, stable life, is married and lives on an avocado farm.  Who couldn't like that?  He seems to have good health, another wonderful thing.

So maybe he is just a happy-happy-happy guy and he just happens to get these darker roles where there isn't an opportunity for humor.  Maybe there aren't as many roles available for a working actor born in 1945.  Too bad, isn't it?

From my standpoint, I think Selleck should smile more.  In both roles.  Just because someone has a drinking problem and has been fired from two jobs doesn't mean that they can't find something funny in life.  And being a police commissioner has to bring something to the table besides arguing and trouble and the mayor threatening your job.  Besides, in Jesse Stone, it doesn't seem as though he's exactly starving.  He has the most fascinating house and seems to have people around him who care, lots of reasons to smile. 

We could all do to smile a little more, I think.  A smile crusade perhaps. 

This is going to be a short post today because I've got a pretty full day ahead.

Pardon me for that.  But the take-away for today is SMILE.  Do it often and do it sincerely.  SMILE at your kids.  SMILE at your co-workers.  SMILE when you pass someone.  Make the world a little friendlier place.  Pay a smile forward. 

Even if it doesn't help anyone else, smiling will make your own mood lighten and you'll feel much better! 

Thanks for reading.