Smiling Now Primarily Used To Communicate Anger
Very funny article on the Onion: Smiling Now Primarily Used To Communicate Anger
Hmm. I do smile a lot… 
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OK, I was going to leave this post at that — a light little funny link for a Friday.
But, after pondering it in the shower, I need to add more. There’s a serious side.
For years, when I got angry, I ate instead of expressing it. I would eat, smile, eat, smile, eat, smile… and occasionally end up in a rage.
Dieting used to scare me because I knew for the first week or so I would be likely to rage over anything and everything. It was like decades of anger were waiting to rush out and cover the earth the minute I stopped overeating. It was a scary out-of-control feeling.
Luckily, I have, for the most part, dealt with that and I can express anger appropriately and I rarely get to the rage point. (When I do, I listen to my favorite band of all time — who can rage while listening to that?!?) And a nice side effect is that I have been overall more successful personally and professionally. I still have my moments, but it’s nothing like it was.
But I do need to be vigilant. Because, when faced with dealing with something unpleasant, it’s still easier in the short run to just eat.
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And that tenuous faith, filled faith, once rooted in a human heart, widening smile of its own. Dieting