We Are What We Do ...

When there's love, words are not important nor necessary. And when love is absent, words only serve to dissimulate it's sorry state in some occasions, and not even that in the rest. Our feelings, emotions and sentiments are often expressed in our eyes, our face, the hands and what's termed the body language. Most of the time much more effective and clearer than words. Believe it or not, we humans are rather transparent, despite what words come out of our mouths.

What's more, most of our body language and gestures are universal, that's why foreigners can communicate quite a lot with each other without knowing the other's language. Darwin was the first scientist in documenting human gestures like shrugging one's shoulder expresses impotence of a thing or a situation, raised one's open hands to show great surprise, or sweeping with an extended arm like a bullfighter to invite someone to enter, etc. He recorded all these in his book in 1872 ' Expressions of emotions in men and animals'.

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