The smile

[00:02.88]010. The Smile [00:13.38]I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. [00:18.94]I fumbled in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had escaped their search. [00:25.00]I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no matches, [00:33.41]they had taken those. I looked through the bars at my jailer. He did not make eye contact with me. [00:41.55]I called out to him, “Have you got a light?” He looked at me, shrugged and came over to light my cigarette. [00:50.02]As he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. [00:56.17]At that moment, I smiled. I don’t know why I did that. [01:01.88]Perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, [01:10.00]it is very hard not to smile. In any case, I smiled. [01:15.74]In that instant, it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, [01:21.50]our two human souls. I know he didn’t want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too. [01:32.04]He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile. [01:39.56]I kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a jailer. [01:46.13]And his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension too. [01:50.65]“Do you have kids?” he asked. [01:53.19]“Yes, here, here.” [01:54.79]I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the pictures of my family. [01:58.91]He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. [02:05.95]My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I’d never see my family again, [02:11.56]never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. [02:17.51]Suddenly, without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out. [02:23.92]Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. [02:29.29]There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town. [02:38.10]My life was saved by a smile. Yes, the smile - the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people. [02:46.77]I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could recognize each other, we wouldn’t be enemies. [02:54.07]We couldn’t have hate or envy or fear. （source：http://online2.tingclass.net/lesson/shi0529/0009/9349/10.lrc）