Little Sammy hurriedly did his homework so he could play with his toys. Teddy was his favorite, and his car, hat, toolbox, Rubik’s cube and spinning top. When Teddy wanted to go to work, he would take the toolbox, wear the hat, sit in the car with the lid and the Rubik’s cube in the toy box on a car seat, and ride until he got to where he was going. . He carefully selected the place where he would sit all day and worked in the client’s shoes. When he wasn’t working, he would turn and turn the Rubik’s cube until all the multi-colored squares were perfectly arranged and all the squares on each face were the same color. He was often delighted to do everything right. “Wow!” He would scream with excitement. The top was also a delicious toy.

He would often shoot the top while spinning several times without stopping for a long time and watch the replay. He was very proud of his skill in everything he did. But Teddy faced a strange problem.
He couldn’t smile due to the fact that his face was fixed and his expression unchanging. Really weird problem for a toy, so Teddy told Sammy one day, “I’m tired of looking one way all the time. I want to express myself too. When I feel happy, I want to be able to smile and show my teeth.” said.

“That’s easy,” Sammy said and picked up a pencil and cracked a smile, even a grimace, but Teddy wasn’t happy. “You’ve ruined my face!” he yelled as he looked at himself in the mirror.

“What do you want me to do then? Let me think. Use pieces of chalk for teeth?”

“No, that’s worse. They won’t look as fancy as I want them to,” Teddy replied.

“Maybe glue on pieces of white paper for the teeth?”

“I would like a sticker that is ready to use. No glue, no mess. How’s that?” “Sure,” Sammy said and took out a shiny smiley sticker and stuck it on her face.

“Interesting! Now you look much happier than before. The wrinkles are gone too. Smiling makes you look younger!” Sammy said.

“You’re right,” Teddy said admiring his new look. “I look my best with my sparkling white teeth and the sparkle in my eyes.”

So Teddy looked cheerful at all times. When he was bored, he still seemed happy. He wanted to ask Sammy for more toys in his toy box. The Rubik’s cube had worn down and the tip of it had broken off. I’ll ask her later, he thought.

At work that day, I had more clients than usual. Small children smiled at him as he passed. The squirrels also saw him work. He was surprised that a cow visited his stall for the first time. “Hello cow,” he said. “Would you like your helmets repaired?” He burped, which meant “NO!” and he left

He seemed so happy: the birds came singing and sat near him while he gave them nuts to eat. “I prefer sandwiches,” said the little ant. “Take this chocolate instead.”

Everyone seemed to like his new countenance. But Teddy found it hard to sit in one place mending all the shoes and waiting for customers to pick them up. He soon felt tired but seemed energetic. More customers passed smiling. He had so much work; he couldn’t kill them all and he couldn’t scold them either. Now he had a new problem.

So he went up to Sammy and said, “I love this beatific smile that is drawing my attention a lot. Well, you see, life for me is not a bed of roses. There are times when I feel tired or sad or just I’m overworked. But my smiling face confuses everyone. They can’t see anything but my happy face. I’m happy to take on more work! I feel exhausted from all the work I’m forced to do because people think that I am exuberant”.

“So what do you want? Do you want to change your expression? What do you think will work for you?”

“I don’t know. But this smile needs to go. I feel like a sad expression would be better. Well, no one would want to burden a sad person with a lot of work,” he smiled genuinely in a long time.

“You’ll get that,” Sammy said as he leaned down to remove the decal.

“Impressive,” Teddy gloated, but returned to his serious, expressionless face. “Make me look really sad, even grumpy. I want to look monstrous. Everyone should feel the fear approaching me.”

“You’ll be lonely Teddy,” she said fondly. But Teddy wanted to look terribly sad. “Add some horns too and red black eyes full of anger and hate,” he said evoking a reckless personality.

“I’m going to stick this sticker on your face. It’s done just the way you want it.” “Exactly what I had in mind!” So Sammy pinned it on and it looked perfect for the day.

“I’m not sure,” Sammy muttered under his breath, because Teddy’s new look also struck terror into his heart.

“We’re going to get the day,” Teddy said. He looked so evil that Sammy didn’t wave at him as he walked away.

When Teddy got out of his car, there was a lot of commotion. People were running in different directions, even stepping on each other. Soon the streets were empty and no one could be seen for a long distance.

“Well, this is what I call perfect peace.” She opened her toy box: there was nothing to do. She smiled at the top whose point she had pinned and was now gently spinning.

There was no sound, as if everyone had gone on vacation. “I’m glad to be here alone, without crowing roosters, burping cows or smiling ants.” So she sat quietly watching the wind blow a few leaves here and there from time to time. No work to do was difficult too. How long could one remain inactive? “I’m bored, and there’s no one to talk to,” she complained to herself.

I couldn’t wait to get home. She knew the sticker was out of place. She had gone too far. A world without friends is worse than one where there is a lot of work but also a lot of love.

Sammy was delighted to get rid of the sticker. He broke it in half to make sure Teddy couldn’t use it again. “What if he changes his mind? I don’t know what happened to him? How could anyone choose to be evil? That’s completely flawed,” he was glad to have an example.

Teddy was happy that he looked normal again. “I’ve tried to be happy and terribly sad. But it seems like they both failed in their own way,” Teddy said sadly. “I can’t think of what I want to look like right now… Sammy, can you help me?”

“When I feel happy, I smile because it is a reflection of how I feel in my heart. I usually don’t smile when I feel sad. So all my feelings start in my heart and spread to all other parts of my body. , but I can feel it anyway.

It’s the same in your case too, the only difference is that you can’t show it to anyone else. But you can still say what you feel. You can let others know how you feel with your words. You can make them smile or cry with your words. It’s just that you have to speak more so that others know it with your words instead of your external expressions”, beamed Sammy.

He continued, “And sometimes it’s best not to show how you feel. It might be best to think about how you feel, as feelings change over time and you may not feel as angry when you calm down.”

Teddy nodded. “I think you’re right. It’s not how you look but what you think that matters. If you think happy thoughts, you will be happy, and you can also make yourself sad by having sad thoughts.”

Teddy continued, “I think I’m happy to stay the way I am and just work on my inner life, the place where I observe and learn about life. I think it’s interesting to live inside myself!” He laughed so hard that all the toys turned to look. “Tell us what makes you so happy?” They came asking.

“Nothing. It’s just life,” and he smiled inside.

Takeaway: When faced with a problem, look inside your heart. You will usually find the solution there, right inside your heart.