Walking down the street, overhearing other people's conversations, especially if they are on cellphones, I often hear people earnestly using the adverb "really" to emphasize just how strongly they feel about something, and in fact more often than not the word is accompanied by several repetitions, like "I really really really liked that part when..." I can't help but think that I would be much more likely to trust someone's convictions if they left the adverb out entirely, and that it is the fear that most people nowadays are accustomed to lies flowing freely that drives us to over emphasize rather than trust our words will be understood and taken seriously. Also, the pretentious side of me sees it as a sign of a weak grasp of vocabulary.
Some people say that when you get old you get the face that you deserve. This makes sense to me. Our faces are so expressive so that emotions can be understood without speech- thus do they reflect our state of mind unless controlled- and over time the emotive facial muscles are probably toned just like any other muscle in our bodies. Also, the act of attempting to control facial muscles seems linked intrinsically to that of controlling one's emotions- relaxing the face is meditative.
There is this sentence my friend Karina once showed me. It is free of punctuation of any kind, and what you do is show it to someone and have them place punctuation within it. It's supposed to reveal a lot about the person's character, depending where they choose to place a comma or colon, or whether they do, etc. This is it:
Woman without man is nothing
Feminism aside, if I were asked to come up with my own character revelatory question, I think I would ask people what they think would happen if the human race produces a unified theory of physics.
More another time...
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