CrocodiLe SmiLe - The same OLD bloddy SmilE

Normally People take example of 'Crocodile tears' for many different situations but why hardly people discuss about 'Crocodile smile?’. First question that rise in our mind is can Crocodile’s are smart enough to smile? Does the word 'Crocodile smile' make any sense? Same type of questions started to fluctuate in my small brain when I visited ‘Mysore zoo’ long back.Frankly speaking, I had never seen a 'Smiling Crocodile' or a ‘Crying Crocodile'. But the word 'Crocodile smile' is more than an English word for me.

Somehow I find this smile on most of the faces.

The faces may belong to my friend or my colleague or my manager or my driver or my security guard or some time some strangers.
Smile has different angles, different shadows and different intentions. Smile can be differentiated depend upon its delivery. A ‘Simple Smile’ brings a 'feel good matter' inside our self and you don't need any reason for that awesome feeling but A ‘Crocodile Smile’ is a smile that makes uncomfortable to others and converts the anger factor into comfortable factor within us.

For example when we are unhappy or uncomfortable and not able to express the same in front of other human beings due to some unavoidable personal or professional reason then we just through a 'Smile' that makes sense to us and creates a nonsense to the one who is standing in front of us.In fact the most of the human beings in this world are dependent on this smile. Everywhere the 'Crocodile smile' exists and everyone loves to deliver it.

The delivery of this 'crocodile smile' may be in front of their girlfriend/boyfriend or wife/husband or if we take example of the office then may be in front of their managers.T

ake example of birthday parties. As you know, when you are throwing a party to your friends or colleagues, you are not supposed to think about the budget of the party but when the actual bill comes to the table and you are the only person who is supposed to pay the entire bill then you will deliver a sudden ‘Crocodile smile' by seeing the amount that you are supposed pay through your own credit card.

One fine day I had a fight with the owner of the dry cleaner who uses to wash and iron all my cloths. After that incident I stopped giving cloths to him but unfortunately his shop was located in front of my house and everyday he use to look at my cloths and use to deliver a smile which was really irritates me like anything but same time he enjoys my irritation and his irritating smile is known as a ‘Crocodile smile’.

This 'Crocodile smile' is more in the married life (between husband and wife). People say that there are different stages of life after the marriage same applies to this crocodile smile. There are different kind of smiles will be delivered at different stages. First year of the marriage will be under 'Romantic smile'. Second year will be under 'Responsible smile'. From the third year to life long there will be only one smile flowing between the couples that is 'Crocodile smile'. In fact this smile helps them to keep their anger or ego in control and that helps them to stay long in their marriage relationship.

This smile is not restricted only to the individuals. Sometime may against the 'System' or against the 'Society'.

A normal salaried human being who is paying his income tax regularly can just through a 'Crocodile smile' by seeing the infrastructure of the city where he is living (This is not to any particular city or country). He will through the same smile when he was struck in heavy traffic or by seeing under construction fly-over or by seeing the corruption. The list of reasons goes on….If we speak about the office environment, this smile is more visible during the appraisal meeting. I think I don’t need to explain about this scenario. Throughout the meeting
Few words will be exchanged with this smile like ‘is it?’ ‘Great’ ‘good question’ ‘I will get back to you’ and ‘Thank you’.

This smile is widely used in the 'Sales and marketing'. As you know it is very difficult to sale a product especially if the product is not branded but these sales people uses this smile for each and every word and they put their sincere continuous effort to sell the product. Within few minutes they will deliver hundreds of crocodile smiles.

If we consider the two countries who always had some problem at their borders but when their respective prime minister meet each other (may be for some official meeting) then they will hug and smile as if they are happy with the current situation at the borders but that is not the fact because the smile that was exchanged between them is a’ Crocodile smile'. The diplomatic way of showing respect to each other.

This 'crocodile smile' helps you to maintain the relationship that people tired of maintaining it and it also helps you to express the anger against the 'system' with peace.

Let’s share at least a ‘Smile/minute’. At last a 'Smile' (it may be any kind of smile) always keeps the person and the society healthy!!!!