Expressions

For IT people, the first thing which strikes their mind after listening to the word expression is “Regular expressions”. Straight away their mind starts losing track of the present blog and wander around thinking hard about various characters used in regular expressions like *,%,~,^ etc etc. But since you are reading this article now, let me tell u, this blog is not about the regular “Regular expressions” which we come across in daily lives. This blog will consider the most natural gift that every person has in him/her, called the expression.

Knowingly or unknowingly the first thing we notice in everybody is their expression. We always get the hint of what other person is thinking based on his expression (Not true always, but true in most cases). There are so many different kinds of expressions and most of them are same on everyone’s face. What I mean by this is, you can always recognize the default expressions like “angry”,”happy”,”sad” on anyone without mistake. For instance I met some friends from my previous company last week. We were meeting after a year and a half. As soon as we saw each other, we all had a hearty laugh. Without any words spoken, we all understood that we were very happy for meeting.

Another such kind of expression which everyone recognizes is “THE LOOK” (Commonly used term to describe expressions like “Surprise”, “anger”, “Shock” depending on the situation). “Hidden Expressions”, one of the most dangerous kinds of expression is used by most of the people. I can give you couple of instances of such expressions below –

Instance-1- College days, teacher catches you for talking in the class.
Teacher – Hey you... Why are you laughing in my class?
You – (Slowly standing up) Sorry sir. (The expression on your face is kind of guilty, sorry, but then under your breath you would be swearing at your teacher for catching you laugh in his class.)
Teacher – What Sorry? Get out of my class right now.
You – (Bending the head down, and giving a very sorry expression) I wont repeat this again, sir. (But within you, get lost man, attendance already over. Should I go out and relax for a while)
Teacher – Next time I see you laughing, I will send you directly to the principal. Sit down.
You – (With a sigh of relief) Thank you, sir. (The expression on your face is “Thank god, I escaped”, but within yourself; you would still be thinking of that previous joke and laughing silently… ;).

Instance-2- You are on your way to market and there you meet your old college mate whom you hated during the college days and the mate is unaware of this hatred. You would try to escape and hope he would not notice you, but unfortunately for you he calls you name and comes towards you. You have no choice but to wait till he arrives near you.
Mate – Hi maan, seeing you after such a long time. How are you maan?
You – (With a fake smile, clutching teeth, greet him back) Hi maan, I am fine… How are you? (Within you - this bugger looks happy. Must be living nicely with his family. Why god, why? Why did I come to market at this time!!!).
Mate – I am fine too man, heard you got married and all. When was it? You never invited me… huh!!!
You – (You wish!!!) Actually my marriage was arranged so quickly man. I had no time to call all my friends. Besides I did call you on your cell, but it always gave me this number is not valid message. Has your number changed or what. (Oh god, why the hell am I reasoning this guy so much. Who the hell cares if he did not attend my marriage!!!)
Mate – Yeah for sometime I had problem with my connection, but the number is still the same maan. Here is my email ID man (He mutters something which you type in your cell and save it as a message). Anyways, I gottu go now maan, see you sometime later. Do mail me ok?
You – (With a happy expression on face) Sure maan. Definitely. Chalo bye. See you soon. (As soon as the mate leaves in other direction, you turn around and walk as far as possible from him and on the way delete the message you just stored).

In both of the above situations, you could easily hide your actual thinking by giving a false expression to the other person who would not even get a clue of what you are thinking of him. Some people are born with this dangerous talent of “Hidden Expressions”, infact I would say most people are rather “gurus” in this field. After using this talent, the person would enjoy the satisfaction of fooling the other person.

That’s it from me in this blog. Hope to have got some expression on your face after reading this blog. I really hope it wont be one of those dangerous talents when people would say “nice blog”… (Bull!!... Doesn’t even know what he is talking and this fellow write blog itseems… Total crap!!!)