Sunday, May 24, 2009

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What is the first thing you notice about people?

I have often been asked this question but it continues to bamboozle me to this day. Why did i choose such a random topic to blog aboutr, you might wonder. Yet again, I have no satisfactory answer.

So coming back to the question posed in the beginning of what promises to be a mildly cheesy blog post, the answer most often received by this blogger is 'what they wear' and 'their eyes'. Well duh! That's like stating George Bush is a clown - universal truth.

And that set me thinking, what is it that I notice about people... After much pontification, I relaised the answer had been staring me in the face. Or rather, smiling me in the face.

Yes, the first thing I notice is how easily people smile. Do they smile rightaway when you are introduced to them? Is it an easy smile? Or a forced smile? Does their smile stay on their lips or reach up to their eyes? Dimple, no dimple? Smirky smile? Or do they smile a heave of releif when you are saying goodbye?

Now I cannot claim to have done a doctoral thesis in the 'Interpretation of Smiles' but i sure know my tight-lipped smile from the monkey grin.

And my favourite kind of smile? That would be the kind that spreads from ear to ear and brings a twinkle to the eye. Like the smile of the little boy who was waving at me when I was travelling by local train in Hyderabad.

5 comments:

Sanjaya Srivatsan said...

I know, this is not a forum for personal smile evaluation, but will you be open for doing one :-) ???

nivi said...

oye... its like eons since i have posted anything... but really really good to see that u r posting so much... highly inspiring! but ntn inspiring is as such happening in life for me to write abt shil.....

hows u???

Rama said...

hey...after i read the question and before i continued reading down the post, my answer was SMILE. :-) how are you dear?

Unknown said...

DO not tell me you have stopped blogging :( ..its been a while

adityapoet said...

The best thing like about this cruel world is her innocent smile. I think smile reminds us of innocence. Even Hitler would smile at an infant's smile. It is something primitive and in true essence defines being a human. Nice post. My name is aditya. I am huge fan of ur blog. i hope this comment deserves a smile :)