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How often do you feel "joyful" or "happy" ?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 450676" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">After I posted, this question stayed with me and thinking about it, I can recall, as a child, being told - ALL THE TIME - by adults, some family but also strangers, to smile. ALL THE FREAKING TIME: "Smile, honey, you look so beautiful when you smile" or especially from my mom, "Smile, your dimples show when you smile" and "Why are you frowning?!" (said in an angry voice - even when I was NOT frowning. I just wasn't walking around with a grin on my face. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">Those comments actually bothered me so much that I think I may have resisted smiling at times, I felt so self concious about smiling in front of people. And do you know, people used to (and still do) say it to easy child. Drives easy child crazy!!! And when she was little and strangers would say it to her, I would ask them if they smiled on demand or is it something they only expected little children who don't know them to do. Guess I was hyper-sensitive??? LOL.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 450676, member: 2211"] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]After I posted, this question stayed with me and thinking about it, I can recall, as a child, being told - ALL THE TIME - by adults, some family but also strangers, to smile. ALL THE FREAKING TIME: "Smile, honey, you look so beautiful when you smile" or especially from my mom, "Smile, your dimples show when you smile" and "Why are you frowning?!" (said in an angry voice - even when I was NOT frowning. I just wasn't walking around with a grin on my face. Those comments actually bothered me so much that I think I may have resisted smiling at times, I felt so self concious about smiling in front of people. And do you know, people used to (and still do) say it to easy child. Drives easy child crazy!!! And when she was little and strangers would say it to her, I would ask them if they smiled on demand or is it something they only expected little children who don't know them to do. Guess I was hyper-sensitive??? LOL.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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