why when you look around in the city at the many different people do most of them look upset?

Question

most of us have experienced it, we take the bus in a city and all you see on all the strangers faces are frowns or serious looks, as if everyone has had a bad day. why? relatively to other humans on the planet in worse situations like starving in africa or working in sweat shops in china, urban goers in first world countries dont look relatively more comfortable/happier?

Answer 1

What you say is true...many are preoccupied with whatever is not right in their lives...we often forget to be happy with what IS going well, and tend to focus on things that are not (but hopefully are trying to figure out how to improve them)....

My expression is often neutral but I do also smile at others or 'just because'...I'm not a gloomy gus and don't want to appear to be...I have much to be thankful for and I know it!

Answer 2

I dont't live in a big city, but I do notice that folks are rushing more and pushy in grocery lines or department stores. Not many are pleasant in long lines, just silent or surly.
Only little kids look happy walking to the school, the older ones just slouch along with faces as droopy as their jeans.

Most of our older neigbors are fairly cheerful and pleasant, but I see older folks down town always looking sour with their mouths drooping at the corners. Not many cheerful people at the gym, either. Most pleasant folks are readers at the book store.

Our country is a boiler room of pressure , rumor, spins and war. We are traveling too fast and don't know our destination. It gets worse and reflects on everyone, even if they seem unaware of it.

Answer 3

I think it is a defense mechanism, so no one approachs us or tries to engage us in conversation. Why? Maybe we are afraid of some crazy person 'cornering' us. When we are all jammed in a bus, it's kind of like all those lab experiments where they let rats breed till they became overcrowded & react by becoming sociopaths & attacked & killed each other. Since we are human and have higher intelligence & have been taught right from wrong, this is our adaptation of how to deal with crowding. Maybe people in those other countries that deal with crowding seemingly better than we do in the USA & most of Europe is how their societies have adapted, since they are crowded nearly ALL the time, not just in busses or subways. Just my untested opinion, of course.

Answer 4

Clinical Neurophysiology is a closely allied specialty to Neurology and all the Neuroscience specialties, as well as other specialties dealing with brain, spine and musculoskeletal disorders.


Stress, lack of good time management, problems at home, pending divorce, death in family oh to walk in another man's shoes for just that moment. The insight we would have.
ever hear "stress kills" well it cause most physical and mental illnesses. Look up neurophysiology their job is to decide if it is one or the other or both. Good field for you guys in train wide open for business. Have a good one:-)

Answer 5

I have a theory. When I lived up North,nobody smiled or talked to you. When I moved South everyone smiled and was very friendly. Than one week we were overcast and there was no direct sun light very one got grumpy and didn't smile. I believe
your attitude has a lot to do with the amount of sun light you get.

Answer 6

The main reason for this is that people work very hard everyday but get hardly anything in return. The little they get is also taken up by bills.

Answer 7

I feel that because of our fast paced lives, and the me, me, me, and more, more, more syndrome this country feels is so important our people have lost the meaning of life and true human enlightenment. Sad.

Answer 8

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY THAT SOCIALIZES US TO THINK INDIVIDULLY RATHER THAN COLLECTIVELY.
AS WE BECOME MORE SEFL-ABSORBED, WE SEE THINGS FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE ONLY, AND CANNOT SEE BEYOND OUR OWN PROBLEMS AND STRESSORS.
IT'S A PART OF OUR CULTURE.