What makes you cheerful? It is said that children smile on the average of 400 times a day. A cheerful adult approximately 40 times and most of us 20 times a day. Make a game of increasing the times you smile. Go around and make it a point to smile over and over with the people around you. Smile because you are alive. Smile the sun is out. Smile just because. Send me a smiley face emoji.