There are two butcher’s shops that I often go to.
While I am always welcomed by two different people with big smiles in both stores, one of them makes me feel slightly uncomfortable.
Why does he make me uncomfortable? Both of them give me a big smile. It’s not a fake smile with only the lips moving, but with the muscles around the eyes moving as well. Yet, there is something uncomfortable about his smile.
It’s probably because his smile, for some reason, seems to be fake. Fabricated, maybe? I don’t know what it is about this smile that makes me feel that way, but I know that it does.
And there is one thing I know for sure from experience.
Although I can’t pinpoint the exact point of his smile that causes this feeling or a reason, there’s always a reason when something makes me uncomfortable.
I may be wrong from time to time, and yet I would rather follow my heart when something doesn’t seem right.