My Hansie and micro-expressions

How do you react when your friend asks you to join in a cup of coffee and you are working on something important? Before your Yes or No, your mind will be flooded with hundreds of instinctual thoughts. All are in a few milliseconds. Your friend might not see what you feel inside.

Perhaps this had happened to you too in your school-days: At least once in a week I got into a situation where my mom would ask me to buy something in the nearby shop when I was about to rush to the ground to play. I can’t describe that split-second emotions. Maybe, my mother knew the meaning of my expressions.

We encounter similar moments every day in our life. They come in both positive and negative ways. There are a few initial reactions, called micro-expressions that truly say what we feel. Darwin was the first to say that these expressions are same everywhere and with every species.

Hansie was waking up, and I pushed his toys to him. He went blank and stared at me for a few seconds. Sad! I know what went wrong. This picture was his expression. It is a macro expression. Isn’t? I will not repeat the same. I wonder whether we often put infants into this situation. i.e. doing something that we like and assume that the baby too will love it.

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