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Say Cheese!

When it's time to have your picture taken, you can almost bet that someone (usually the photographer) will udder that phrase - SAY CHEESE! Why? Probably because it's next to impossible to properly say CHEESE without showing your teeth at least a little bit. Ha! You just tried it didn't you? LOL Did you move your lips and show your teeth or are you studying to be a ventriloquist? At any rate the goal is to have you smile for your photo or at least have you produce a reasonable facsimile of a smile. 

Or maybe you are a photog King or Queen. As soon as you see a camera or  camera phone your smile is at the ready! The paparazzi will never catch you slipping. But what about when you're not about to pose like a super model. Do you smile? What I mean is, are you usually presenting a happy, smiling face to the world? Or are you a mean-mugging so and so? 

What does your smile or lack of a smile mean? If you're mean-mugging, is it because you're angry/upset/sad? Is it just the way your face is setup? LOL IJS is that just your normal expression - doesn't mean anything necessarily - just your face?  Or maybe you just don't like your smile? Do you use mean-mugging to keep people away? Does it sometimes work too well?

How do you use your smile, Smiley? Do you have a disarming smile? A smile that's so warm, so inviting, that you flash it at will? Do you use your smile to put people at ease, calm tense situations? Do you use your smile to express how happy you are with yourself, your life, your situation? Do you smile because you want those around you to know that things are great in your world? But are they - or are you just putting on a brave face?

Me? I hardly ever smile in my pictures. I just happen to think my smile is too big...somehow it manages to takeover my ENTIRE face LOL. See I have these cheeks that are not small even when I'm not smiling. So my photos usually have me mean-mugging or maybe a slight smirk/grin combo but in person, I am ALL smiles.

So to you I say this - the next time you're posing for a photo, or the next time you walk past a stranger, the next time you meet someone for the first time, the next time you're hurting but know that a brave face is required, the next time you're alone and wonder why your circle is so small - Smile and see what happens...


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