Frown
Some months back, I attended a conference on Women Empowerment at a University, which taught me a lot of new things –ironically, not about Women Empowerment, but about “the need and benefits of wearing a FROWN”. It sounds ridiculous but its true! Like it always happens at such events, I met old forgotten friends, colleagues, and also made some nice new acquaintances. During the tea-break, I ran into a senior colleague of mine, whom I was meeting after almost a decade. We exchanged pleasantries, but I felt that something was amiss. I kept observing her keenly for some moments; then, voiced my concern, to which she told me that she was perfectly ok. She admitted that her frown might be the culprit behind projecting her as upset or unhappy. She went on to enlighten me that smiling too much would make people take her for granted, and also make her look commonplace. She told me that she was too senior to smile at everyone, as if accomplishment was proportionate to frowning. Thus dawned up...