Faces in the street

Next time you go out, please make an observation about the faces you see. Some are happy, but many are anxious. Observe the faces of children too; they are mostly happy. Why is that?

Concepts, words, names etc. are extremely handy for making sense of things and communicating with others. Before we knew the concept of ‘hunger,’ we cried and were given milk. Now, we might say, ‘Let’s go eat something.’ If we just cried now, our colleagues wouldn’t understand us as well as our mothers did.

However, if we start to blindly believe in these concepts, not only positive outcomes will occur. For example, if we believe that ‘work is crummy’ and hold onto that concept for decades, yes, we will likely have an anxious expression too.

A concept itself is neither good, bad, nor anything else; it simply exists. You might not like it and therefore label it as ‘crummy’ living with that belief.

However, if there are creases on the face because of anxiousness, it isn’t bad; it just is. The reason we are talking about this is that those creases might be a sign that they aren’t living a full life. Even though happiness is the best anti-wrinkle remedy ever made, those creases might not fully flatten if they’ve built up over decades, but the feeling is much better!