Smiling Faces

In Amy Cunniham's essay "Why Women Smile", she speaks about her smiling all the time is not always a great thing. Her own husband even told her that when people see her smile they like her in a fuzzy way and not in the serious adult way. She goes on to talk about how we, everyone, not only smile when we are happy or laughing but in almost every situation we can be put into; like in Japanese being known to smile when they are frightened. Her essay later continues to describe how babys just smile without any connection to any feelings at all. Laughter and smiling can be used to help many people lighten a situation like and embarrassing moment or being in a place where they are not total comfortable. I do not agree with her essay in that smiling is always a good thing. There is though such things as smiling way to big or not smiling big enough. Everyone enjoys to smile and laugh every once in a while and it might even be good for you. Smiling is also a powerful form of lifting someones day or make an awkward moment seem better.