From Mariana Alessandri at aeon:
Cheerfulness conceived as a virtue instead of a spontaneous feeling is a pretence. It’s not an action, it is an act. Whistling while you work might be worth defending, but forcing yourself to smile when you don’t feel like it amounts to lying to the people around you...
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