I usually put on a smile. It’s easy for me because the people whom I meet usually are young students who return my smile with compound interest. Young people love smiling faces and they are sure to reciprocate with more charming smiles. When I come across adults, I have to make an extra effort to smile but I usually succeed. At least I’ve been assuming that I normally carry a smiling face. That’s why I was surprised when a student of mine asked me the other day why I was so serious outside the school. The world outside the school does not matter to me except when I have some business to do with it like buying vegetables or negotiating the traffic at some crowded junction. I guess I don’t smile at the vegetable seller or the stranger at the traffic crossing. I also guess that my student didn’t mean that. Probably he noticed a drastic contrast between my face in school and the one outside. Probably he thinks that my smile in the school is a put-on. I e
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