Smile Spontaneously

Settla(Shen Jiale)
 

Dr.Marquardt
 

ENG 1430 W10
 

April 3rd
 

Word COunt:# 429

Smile Spontaneously

    In Amy Cunningham “Why Women Smile”, She talks about her view about false smile through her own experience and the philosopher’s theoretic support. She holds the view that a woman should smile spontaneously according to how herself feels rather than according to what someone else needed.

    First of all, Amy points out that “hasn’t been serving me well”, because she smiles for whatever the reason rather than smile spontaneously. She realizes that she wears false smile is not appropriate and she wants to change. Then she talks the smile from herself to the whole women in the world. All of them have one in common: What’s on the surface is not what they feel.

     From my perspective, actually, we often wear smile on the face, while we didn’t feel pleasant or happy inside the heart. This is not what we want, however we have no choice. Sometimes I feel unhappy and sad, but I wouldn’t like to make my friends and relatives worry about me. So we have to pretend that I have a good day and wear a false smile to them. In fact, there are exactly a great number of smiles expressing our emotion, such as joy, amusement, relief, sad, etc. Smiles seem to be a blend of nature and nurture. Women smile more than men is a truth. On the one hand, women mature earlier than men. Just like the words in the article “our smiles provide an extremely versatile means of production”, sometimes a smile protects ourselves. On the other hand, women need to protect themselves more because they are more likely to suffer pain.

    It’s magical for people to learn smiles, because no one teaches them and they only learn through watching the parents’ behaviors. Even the blind persons who can’t see how parents smile learn to smile. In fact, sometimes women are force to smile but to have no choice. For an instance, some women work for waitress, the personal assistant or receptionist, the flight attendant, etc. They have to wear smiles all the day because their jobs require a good sevice. Smiles provide an appetency. If they behave their own emotions on their faces, they are more likely to be fired.

    Actually, real smiles have beneficial physiological effects, while false ones do nothing for us at all. However, sometimes we still need to wear false smiles which can’t be controlled by ourselves. If there is no necessity to wear a smile, just present what you feel in your heart. Smile spontaneously for yourself rather than the environment or the society!