“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”― Adolf Hitler
Another thing I took notice to and wanted to try from Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project was her idea of acting the way you want to feel. So for this is was pretty straight forward, I would put a smile on my face even when I felt like the total opposite on the inside.This idea made me uncomfortable, I felt fake and really I felt worse when I was approached by someone who had to the notion that I was in a good mood. *This made me feel like the terminator when he was told to smile, it was just a big no in my book. I think my parents monitor our behavior in order to determine the amount of chores they can dish out to us before we loose it. With my awkward smile on I virtually got the chance to clean our whole house... yay.
This is probably one of those things that I will not try again as it ended up doing more harm than good. Throughout the day I found myself saying comforting things like, **"No worries, it's all well and good...", but in the back of my head I knew the truth. This ***could possibly work under different circumstances where I am the one in power and not someone like my parents that would just further hamper my mood.
*Allusion
**Tautology
***Tautology?
Hilarious post - both the Terminator extended analogy and the imagery of you cleaning the house with a fake smile like his on your face.
ReplyDeleteI took that idea of acting the way you want to feel a little differently, I guess, because I would also hate acting fake. When I get myself into a bad mood, especially at work, I have to just act like none of that happened, because it is not the fault of the kids who are coming in next period that I had a bad meeting... if I need to, I can come back to my frustration later. But I have to just block it out, and it usually recedes... doesn't always work, of course. But I have definitely experienced the "looking pleasant so people approach me thinking I want to talk to them" thing - UGH. Ha ha.