Another difficult day
at the office yesterday. When she came home from work it was not hard
to tell that things had gone badly. When this happens we both slip
into our default positions. She tries hard to pretend that everything
is fine whilst at the same time sending out non-verbal messages that
are screaming “I made another mistake and am unhappy and worried.”
My habit is to only hear the non-verbal message and to keep pushing
until she tells me what is wrong.
I was thinking today
that sometimes it's best to just put a smile on our faces and pretend
that we are happy, even when we don't feel like it. If I encourage
her to do this more often and do the same myself then maybe when things get difficult we just
might convince ourselves that all is fine. And end up smiling for real.
The route to happiness is sometimes through a forced smile.
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