Those who smile the most....

on the outside, are most likely the ones frowning the most on the inside. I do not think I am the first one to have said this. But I wanted to post about it nonetheless. So many people wear their hearts on their sleeves, but you don't really wonder about them-because you have nothing to wonder about! I'm talking primarily about teenagers here. And there is no inbetween! It's either you are a walking-raging emotional wreck, or a quiet and/or smiley person that doesn't tell anyone anything. I read this article, speculating that much of today's "youth" (not sure what range of ages, whether adolecent or teenage or toddler or whatever) have spent the majority of their lives on antidepressants, and therefore have become "emotionally illiterate." Hmmmmm, perhaps in some cases that may be true. After all, visit any run-of-the-mill high school and you will feel it: the emotional flares and blips and explosions are palpable. Even with the i-am-smiling-and-therefore-am-a-perfectly-happy-child children, you an feel tension and raw feelings. But I do not think kids are tuned to that, so they do not notice or ask. Actually I don't think adults are tuned to this either, or else these kids would have someone to talk to. I guess babies are the only ones; they can sense it and that's why they are upset so easily. Wow. If this were at all plausible or true, the world would be an even bigger mess than it already is. But then, I think this is a common case. And if there is not 10 teen suicides in each school every year, I like to think that there are warriors that walk among us. People that weathered their personal storms and emerged stronger than before. I know this sounds awful, but this sounds like survival of the fittest to me. Many people seem to go through their teen years crying on the inside, some letting it ruin them, some even commiting suicide, and some that use it to make themselves better. See what I am getting at? It seems to me that humans are at the top, and the bottom of the food chain. Because we may be the top predator in the world, but now our greatest threat may be ourselves. . . . Darn I am not the first to come up with that either.