The Science of Smiles

Adela, for most of our friendship there has been a consistent theme, one of the few things I ask from you.

Not nudes 😉

I ask for you to smile.

And like everything I do there are multiple reasons behind my request that we should unpack.

First, you are absolutely at your most beautiful when you smile a real smile. Your eyes sparkle, your face glows from within. No woman I have ever known lights up like you do and is as radiant as you are when you show that you are happy.

Now unfortunately you are not happy, and that deeply saddens me because I truly do want you to be happy, even if I don’t see it.  But that leads into a scientific reason that I ask you to smile. The psychosomatic reasons.

Instead of me trying to pull research from disparate sources, watch this TED Talk on why smiling is important to your health.

I want you to want to smile, even if I don’t get to see it Adela.