Recently I had read an article on Science Daily, regarding facial expressions being developed before birth.
Article link: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110913090927.htm
This really intrigued me and it made me think about how things that happened without control can affect us in the future. Take this article as an example. Facial expressions include smiling, frowning etc. Just taking smiling in this case, scientist have discovered that there are actually over 50 ways to smile. This made me really think. As we all know smiling is a way to be polite, a way to show gratitude, and a smile is also a factor in what makes people attractive. On the other hand, we also know of some people that smile awkwardly or just don't have the pretty smile that celebrities have. Does that really lead back to when they were still a fetus? Does it also mean that a person's expression of emotion is also in a way controlled by what happened then when they were a fetus?
This really made me feel that the development of the facial expressions is really unfair, since it is uncontrollable and can affect what people say about us. However, this really gave me the excuse when people request for me to smile brighter or open your eyes bigger when you smile, I'll just reply I didn't learn how to do that when I was a fetus. ^^ eyesmile.
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