Smiling. Why?
If you smile a lot you get wrinkles. But our culture tells us that wrinkles are ugly and need to be eradicated at all cost. Wrinkles mean you are old and not fun anymore. Some think that having wrinkles are the end of youth, vitality and life.
How much money, time and pain is spent on the pursuit of a smooth wrinklefree face. Think of all the creams and coverups, the surguries and injections and the tears shed trying to make a person's face look like it did as a child. The sad fact is that wrinkles make people sad.
Why then is smiling so important? If you are not smiling people think you are mad, sad, sick, rude, uncaring, unkind, mean, tired, irritated, or just plain stupid. We are told to be polite and smile from the time we learn to talk. Ever have a photograph taken without someone yelling "smile!". Even complete strangers will stop and say "smile its not that bad" if they catch you with out a grin.
We must choose, do we smile and face the consequence of the wrinkled face or do we save our smooth skin and smiling faces and risk offending everyone around us? It is a pathetic world we live in when a wrinkled face is such a concern.
Remember a fat face (smile or not) doesn't wrinkle!
The Fatness of life explored by the great Fatness himself, even Matumbo 22.
5 comments:
I believe that when moses was wandering with newly Egypt-free Israel, the "mana" that is talked about in the Holy Bible is actually gravy.
It is interesting that coolmom mentioned the Exodus while commenting on Dave's posting about smiling. I believe that the smile was invented during the Exodus, although the Cecil B. DeMille version shows people smiling in Egypt. Stupid Cecil.
You are absolutely correct FEG. It was precisely when, upon noticing the ooze on the ground and partaking thereof and savoring the rich beefy concoction that, the first smile was born. I have been writting a play to celebrate the anniversary of said event...I guess it will be more of a reinactment, with music. I will be holding try-outs soon. Bring a broadway song prepared to sing and your favorite gravy recipie.
Dave! Your blog is showing!
"Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been." Wrinkles = happy life, no wrinkles = sad and lonely.
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