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Thursday, September 24, 2009
smile at fear

Our fear is what holds us back - fear of misrepresentation, fear of rejection, fear of failure.

I tried smiling non-stop for the bus ride home cos I remembered someone whom I met who was always so smiley. It's really refreshing to see her and you'd be influenced by it and want to smile too. Plus they say smiling uses less muscles than frowning thus should be more relaxing and natural. That and I met a man with such a grumpy and frumpy face - his face literally pulls down at the mouth to his chin, kinda like those grumpy cartoon characters we see on TV. Or a bulldog.

I once read that you'd make yourself feel depressed and bring bad stuff onto yourself by just expressing it - slouched body and frown complete. Sure enough, the guy on the bus seemed to draw bad things to himself too (at least from what I could see on the bus ride). The bus driver forgot to stop at his stop and went on to drop him off at the next stop instead. And it was raining.

I guess a smile beats away feelings of stress and irritation. Smile and the world will smile with you. :)