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| 04/27/06 Bob Big Smiles The strength of a smile in modern society is undeniable. However such physical action has come to represent less the display of happiness, and more the display of falsity. We live in an age where images have come to represent us, and in these images you will find a strong majority of smiles. To imply however that these smiles are genuine would be a outlandish assertion. It would seem somewhere that it has been placed into our value system that a smile and furthermore happiness is something imperative to existence, thus forbidding "negative" emotions. Such a claim that one should always smile suggests that in doing so those "negative" emotions would be removed, but this is clearly not the case. In the marketing of smiles to display happiness we are instead displaying falsity brewing a culture where the smile no longer generates the same positive connotation as it once did, therefore completely corrupting the purpose of smiling unnaturally in the first place. Saying this, my recommendation would be not to limit smiling but to smile genuinely if we wish to continue to associate the smile with happiness. I have no problem, really, with the deterioration of a smile by any means, I'm just looking out for those who do. ~Bob |
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