Smile

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

I went away this weekend where lots and lots of pictures were taken. there were "famous" people to stand with etc. And I tried like heck to avoid being pictured at all. But I couldn't weasel out of one of them. And in that pic, I looked fat and dumpy and old and I wasn't too happy about. Because, honestly, I don't look that bad. but there are times i don't photograph well. Ah. Vanity. Why waste your time on it?

but anyway. Thinking about this got me to studying the other people in pictures, and in particular, I started studying their smiles. And there are smiles and there are smiles.

So then I went and read about smiles. And well, there are 3 things to look for if you want to know if a smile is genuine. One is that the person will squint their eyes and even close them. Second, they will have crows feet, and they will mostly not show their bottom teeth. Only when they say "cheese" will you drop the lower part of your face to show teeth.

And then, there are closed lipped smilers, who are either fake, liar type sorts OR they have bad teeth. Either way, they are hiding something.

And after doing this smile study, I've gone back to study pics of people I know. And I am happy and genuinely smiling that most of the people who I call friends are genuine smilers. (-: