People who are always smiling

kenny olav
kenny olav Posts: 3,319
edited February 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Do you know people like this? Some of my co-workers are like this, all of them female. And it's not fake smiling. They just have a genuinely cheerful disposition, ALL OF THE TIME. I don't mind it (I would mind it if it were fake) but I don't get it. I'm not an unhappy person, but my expression is typically blank unless something affects my mood. Are some people born with the "happy gene" or something??
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  • Stone Is God
    Stone Is God Posts: 1,331
    If they were I must have been at the back of the line for that.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    I don't think I know anyone like that :mrgreen: I'm like you and sometimes I try to make myself smile and it feels like my face is gonna crack or something if I don't mean it :mrgreen:

    I do like smiley happy people though... cos I do actually feed off them... it's usually contagious.
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    Do you know people like this? Some of my co-workers are like this, all of them female. And it's not fake smiling. They just have a genuinely cheerful disposition, ALL OF TIME. I don't mind it (I would mind it if it were fake) but I don't get it. I'm not an unhappy person, but my expression is typically blank unless something affects my mood. Are some people born with the "happy gene" or something??


    in some sense, i think so. i don't know if there is A gene, but i do believe there has been some causal link to this....and that some people are genetically predispositioned to being positive in their outlook, whereas others are more disposed to negativity. of course, it is also part of environment, culture, upbringing...but to some degree in any case, we are predisposed to such.


    i don't know many people like that, but the few that i do..i agree, completely genuine. and no, they don't have any more of gifted life than the next person...they just genuinely see the good before the bad, and manage to be content. even with our predispositions, it Is possible to at least alter our outlooks, if not change them completely. like nything else, it's not easy to change things that aren't natural to us...but ceetainly possible, and worthy. a 'positive attitude' and generally being a 'happy person' has been linked many times to... a longer, healthier, happier life. sounds good! :)
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    i know some people like that...they kinda freak me out 8-)
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  • Fahka
    Fahka Posts: 3,187
    i think some people smile alot just to have something to do.. Ive been told im smiley, but thats just because i tend to think alot of different things are humorous :lol: But you forizzle, you gotta rock the complacent/not here face ONCE in a blue moon...
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    It's the smiley ones that you have to look out for...
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • dharma69
    dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    Huh. I opened this thread thinking that it was about Nancy Pelosi.
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  • milarso
    milarso Posts: 1,280
    I love smiling. Smiling's my favorite. :D
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  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I think I'm like this. My friends ask me all the time why I'm so happy all the time but I just tell them I don't have anything to be upset about. I'm alive, I'm healthy, I'm happy. :D
  • CreedDisease
    CreedDisease Posts: 241
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    I think I'm like this. My friends ask me all the time why I'm so happy all the time but I just tell them I don't have anything to be upset about. I'm alive, I'm healthy, I'm happy. :D
    exactly :)
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    I have the WORST fake smile...it's soooooo obvious! I am generally a happy person, but am not a constant-smiler.
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  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    Do you know people like this? Some of my co-workers are like this, all of them female. And it's not fake smiling. They just have a genuinely cheerful disposition, ALL OF THE TIME. I don't mind it (I would mind it if it were fake) but I don't get it. I'm not an unhappy person, but my expression is typically blank unless something affects my mood. Are some people born with the "happy gene" or something??

    I don't usually like - or at least don't relate to - people who are either fake smiley or always happy. I think I'm generally a pretty pissy/pessimistic person. And yet, I just realized I might fall into the category of people you're describing, especially at work. But it's not that I'm happy or fake; I'm just friendly. I think it's important to have a warm, friendly work environment.
  • your move now
    your move now Posts: 1,165
    the problem i have is i apparently dont smile... not that im depressed or anything just off in my own little world most of the time. People who smile all the time are fine. provided they arent constantly asking you why you aren;t smiling.
    I don't mean to offend anyone, a lot of what I say should be taken with a grain of salt... that said for most of you I'm a stranger on a computer on the other side of the world, don't give me that sort of power!
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    your_move_now wrote:
    the problem i have is i apparently dont smile... not that im depressed or anything just off in my own little world most of the time. People who smile all the time are fine. provided they arent constantly asking you why you aren;t smiling.
    same here... and I'm happy in my own little world but then someone will come up and say 'cheer up love' :shock: even though I may have been thinking about beer or rugby or Pearl Jam or something like that. I dunno how I look so miserable when I'm usually happy :mrgreen:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • FoxyMop
    FoxyMop Posts: 303
    I smile a lot, though not all the time. I think I generally give off a positive, happy vibe. Life's too short to be negative :):mrgreen::)
  • Stella
    Stella Posts: 283
    I am smiley. that is what i blame my wrinkles on. too much smiling. But friendly smiling, not smiling assassin smiley.
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  • adropinthepark
    adropinthepark Posts: 475
    I am one of those, at least out in public.
    When people ask why I look so cheery, I have NO idea what to say. I just smile a lot, plus I find soooooo many things in life funny - from corny to morbid, sarcastic and cynical. That definitely helps keep a smile on my face.
    Though, the not so light and fluffy stuff tends to shock people who don't know me. I think that's 'cause my smile is genuine and who could be so freakin' happy about thinking of disemboweling another??? ;):D
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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    I have known smileys who I thought were mental defectives and they gave me the creeps, but I have known others who I could tell were generally cheerful people. My grandpa always said "you might as well laugh as to cry" and I kind of try to live by that -- or I remind myself of that a lot -- but it is hard for me as my dad's side of the familiy is generally a hot-tempered bunch and likes to raise hell. I kind of fall in the middle of that -- which might make some folks think I am a mental defective -- but I am quite a hell raiser myself more of the time. As for smiling all the time...no I do not, not that much at all actually, which doesn't mean I am unhappy but just that I am not that cheerful of a person. I've got quite a frown -- wrinkle up my forehead and all that crap -- and mom has always said I am going to have deep furrows up there if I don't stop acting that way
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    adropinthepark wrote:
    I am one of those, at least out in public.
    When people ask why I look so cheery, I have NO idea what to say. I just smile a lot, plus I find soooooo many things in life funny - from corny to morbid, sarcastic and cynical. That definitely helps keep a smile on my face.
    Though, the not so light and fluffy stuff tends to shock people who don't know me. I think that's 'cause my smile is genuine and who could be so freakin' happy about thinking of disemboweling another??? ;):D


    you are!
    and it's funny, i'd not expected it getting to know you here first. not that you don't come off as a friendly person, just not so smiley. :D


    i am not smiley. i am a generally happy person, relatively friendly....but overall, i am pretty reserved and polite with people i don't know. i also can be very insular while on my own....so if i do smile, it's just my own thoughts....but i think overall i am just blank-faced most of the time. however, i must look approachable b/c total strangers come up and talk to me ALL the time....always have my whole life!
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    Do you know people like this? Some of my co-workers are like this, all of them female. And it's not fake smiling. They just have a genuinely cheerful disposition, ALL OF THE TIME. I don't mind it (I would mind it if it were fake) but I don't get it. I'm not an unhappy person, but my expression is typically blank unless something affects my mood. Are some people born with the "happy gene" or something??

    perhaps it's not them....perhaps it's you...maybe your sweet goodness brings smiles to their faces...you, lady killer, you.... ;)

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