Kia Ora

"Tis easy to wear a smile and stay pleasant when ones life flows along like a sweet song!
But a person worthwhile is the one who can still wear a smile when things in their life go all wrong !"

I believe some people are born with a smile,  in other words they tend to smile a lot more than the average person...

Understandably for many here life can be [for want of a better term] a living "hell" and a smile is not what their facial muscles are accustomed to ...

Whiles for others a smile  is in a sense a wholesome 'habit' they can always find something to smile about...

Even just thinking about  smiling makes them smile    

So where do you think you fit on the 'smileometer' ?

Are you a compulsive smiler ?  Or a frivolous-less  frowner ?

I bet some are smiling as they read this 

Metta Zenda

Yup, compupsive smiler, that's me! This thread needs a poll. Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 17, 2013, 05:41:16 PM
Yup, compupsive smiler, that's me! This thread needs a poll. Hugs, Devlyn

Kia Ora Devlyn,
That's a good idea...You're not just a pretty face 

Can you poll it for me, for example  "Smileometer"  A) Compulsive Smiler B) Casual Smiler C) Only when I have to smiler D) A frowner but would like to smile more E) A frowner ...What's there to smile about ?

* Don't Worry I've just seen the "add poll"
Metta Zenda

I rarely smile. I practiced in front of a mirror recently and realized my smile is uneven, which made me more self conscious about it. I don't even really laugh it seems.

Quote from: TiffanyT on March 17, 2013, 05:52:19 PM
I rarely smile. I practiced in front of a mirror recently and realized my smile is uneven, which made me more self conscious about it. I don't even really laugh it seems.

I think we're all lopsided that way, one side of my mouth starts to smile before the other side, and no, I'm not having a stroke! I'll bet your uneven smile is cute. Hugs, Devlyn

A frowner - but would like to smile more... shoot - half the time that I think I'm smiling I am not. 

Though I'm certain that I will one day achieve the goal of smiling more often, I'm afraid that the knotted brow is probably here to stay...

Yay, the poll is up! I was going to go with compulsive smiler, but went with "other" instead. I lucked out and life gave me "stupid grin stuck on your face!"

I smile casually I suppose. It feels good and I especially love when smiling and it makes someone else smile.

My ex was a chronic frowner, and my gf before her was too. I told them that if they just raised the very corners of their mouth, it really brightens their face up.

Of course, they'd insist they didn't want to look "goofy" and they'd make a big toothy grin to prove it..."Not like that", I said..."Just the corners...just enough where your cheeks are beginning to lift up."

No go! They just wouldn't do it...but I do.

It really doesn't help--or else I have other issues that repel people. Oh yeah, I do...well I still smile. Gotta do something right, yes?

Quote from: Beth Andrea on March 17, 2013, 06:19:15 PM
My ex was a chronic frowner, and my gf before her was too. I told them that if they just raised the very corners of their mouth, it really brightens their face up.

Of course, they'd insist they didn't want to look "goofy" and they'd make a big toothy grin to prove it..."Not like that", I said..."Just the corners...just enough where your cheeks are beginning to lift up."

No go! They just wouldn't do it...but I do.

It really doesn't help--or else I have other issues that repel people. Oh yeah, I do...well I still smile. Gotta do something right, yes?

...says the woman with the smile currently lighting up the room!

My resting face is slightly downturned but I am a frequent smiler, I have a lot to smile about.

Take this morning, yes it was raining, yes I've run out of money way before I should and yes I was wearing clothes that were twice as old as the children I teach - but I was going to my parents to see my sister who has been in Australia for two months. You couldn't have stopped me smiling.

Normally I'm a frowner (with no ambition to smile more) but sometimes in certain events I can't stop smiling.  It's annoying.

I smile all the time now.  Even when I am on the phone.  I sound more feminine.

I'm a compulsive smiler, but sometimes I have to force myself to hold one to keep people from knowing what goes on in my head.  One of my friends recently pointed out that the one time he's seen me get angry and swear I was smiling the entire time (My ex and I had just broken up and I was still wrapping my mind around her cheating, so I had plenty to be angry about)

I've learned to keep a pretty tight cap on my emotions so I only express happiness or anything else when I think it's warranted. A few times I burst out laughing in high school at something and the entire classroom would go silent and look at me in horror. I guess they really thought I was a robot.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 17, 2013, 06:22:49 PM
...says the woman with the smile currently lighting up the room!

Thanks Devlyn...*hugs*

Quote from: Padfoot92 on March 17, 2013, 09:40:50 PM
I've learned to keep a pretty tight cap on my emotions so I only express happiness or anything else when I think it's warranted. A few times I burst out laughing in high school at something and the entire classroom would go silent and look at me in horror. I guess they really thought I was a robot.

I almost never laughed in high school...and the kids thought I was stuck up or "retarded"...little did they know about what I was going thru.

Words can be so cruel, even more than the one saying them knows...

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 17, 2013, 06:03:31 PM
Yay, the poll is up! I was going to go with compulsive smiler, but went with "other" instead. I lucked out and life gave me "stupid grin stuck on your face!"

Kia Ora Devlyn,

Be thankful you're not like the Joker 

Metta Zenda

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 17, 2013, 05:58:55 PM
I think we're all lopsided that way, one side of my mouth starts to smile before the other side, and no, I'm not having a stroke! I'll bet your uneven smile is cute. Hugs, Devlyn

I'm not so certain. I don't like to show my teeth either. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, they're all straight and white, no cavities for years. But when people look really happy, they show their teeth. I don't feel like I've earned the right to show that amount of happiness. If that makes sense. I'm jealous of it in a way.

Normal.



Smile.

Tiffany!!!

You have a lovely smile!! It makes your eyes really light up!