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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60294)	7/29/2001 6:29:19 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

You clearly see what you want to see. That Oprah show sounds great. It doesn't sound funny at all to me. How nice that these women all came together with such good intentions. I bet they talked a lot about their cultures. Would they have needed to be in tribal dress in order to impress you with the sincerity of their cultural awareness? We can come together and look very much the same and still harbor an awareness of our cultural identity- that is one point which I have tried to make repeatedly- and you have made it for me- BRAVO!!! These women were proud of where they came from, of their separate cultures, and yet they were very much the same. All American women. There you have it- the essence of what I think is wholesome about diversity. And you find it funny. Well, I guess it takes all kinds. I suppose if you were amused by it, it does them no harm. As for smiles: We are our behavior. If we change our behavior we can change our thought pathways. Smiles affect us physiologically- even if we smile "on purpose." You might be interested in the physiology of this. There is plenty of research out there on it. It is not fake or "insincere" if it affects our thoughts, and eventually it becomes a natural habit. If you feel you are perfect now, or feel it is hopeless to try to change, I guess I can understand that. I think it's worth a try to attempt to become more the way I want to be. I want to naturally smile at everyone- and until it IS natural I will think happy thoughts and remind myself to do it when it doesn't come naturally. I am sorry you cannot smile on command. It's a wonderful talent to have. If I were ugly and fat and crippled I'd want people to smile at me once and a while. And I would hope some of them might try to imagine how I felt. It might seem patronizing to you- but until the world gets over it's fascination for beautiful, young and perfect people, a smile from someone who thinks about it, is probably better than being ignored. I'm guessing here. I've never been in that situation- but they SMILE back at me, and if we are both being insincere, so what? We are both getting good chemicals from our bodies in reward for our smiling. JMO- you go on frowning all day long if you want. :-)