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Old 10-05-2008, 08:19 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I think a big part of it is that through your description it sounds like you are wanting to smile for someone, or smile at someone because it would be a good thing to do. The people who smile at every stranger they see aren't doing it for those reasons. They're doing it because they're happy.

When I was younger, I was incredibly shy and had the same difficulties as you describe above. The problem went away when magically I wasn't uncomfortable in groups of strangers, and thereby happy. Because I was happy, I smiled at everyone and everything, really.
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