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If it takes more muscles to frown, then why does it pain me more to smile? My jaw aches when I smile, even when I am happy. I suppose it is because frowning is the easiest option to take, as opposed to smiling and having a positive outlook on things. When I look at a painting, let's say the Mona Lisa, I am uncertain as to whether I should frown or let my jaw ache because she is doing neither. The ambiguity seemingly strikes me and drowns my mind, washing away my thoughts - every single collection that I had ever stored. Instead it is a matter of survival, should I frown or should I smile? On examining closely, I am familiar with the brush strokes that I yearn to achieve, every angle and turn and oh so swift movement that the paintbrush took created this ambiguity. They say things are better off not knowing, and I believe them. For, one is curious but one is also not stable. No one is stable, nothing is stable, not even the masterpiece that is the Mona Lisa. But that's what makes it genius. Is she smiling? Or is she trying not to frown? Is she embarrassed? Did Da Vinci even know? Of course he knew, he was the creator, but what if the creator didn't know. It takes less muscles to smile, but it also takes a lot more than just muscles to smile. It's harder to smile, frowning is horrible and grey. Smiling is confusion - sweet, sweet confusion. Don't frown, frowning is boring.