found something interesting on BBC about smiles.
Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. One possible explanation for this is that it may be easier for people to get along if they don't always know what others are really feeling.
Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain.
Fake smiles can be performed at will, because the brain signals that create them come from the conscious part of the brain and prompt the zygomaticus major muscles in the cheeks to contract. These are the muscles that pull the corners of the mouth outwards.
Genuine smiles, on the other hand, are generated by the unconscious brain, so are automatic. When people feel pleasure, signals pass through the part of the brain that processes emotion. As well as making the mouth muscles move, the muscles that raise the cheeks – the orbicularis oculi and the pars orbitalis – also contract, making the eyes crease up, and the eyebrows dip slightly.
Well it was actually an activity seeing if you could differentiate the fake or genuine smile.
Ha!
Anyway,
gotta find a new direction in life to head :)
can't be always stuck in one stage and never move on I guess?
Gotta have the courage to just take a step...
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Yawnz...
just gonna end of with my recently found favourite quote!
"So hold your head up high and pretend that you're alive."

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