Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is contagious, but do not wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. 

Reading through literature of various languages, one is prone to come across the topic in many different formats and styles. But the end result is always the same: making pleasant encounters, eliciting smiles from the faces of friends and aquaintances, rejoycing and laughing. Laugh and grow fat. Strangely enough, it looks like corpulent persons have a jovial carriage, are pleasant to be with and are endowed with infectious enthusiasm.
So since being corpulent is akin to being  happy,  why bother about striving at a more geometric figure.
Weight aside, the eyes are the monitor of one’s state of mind. It seems like they are endowed with very accurate projection of the degree of cheerfulness
But admittedly there are times in our lives that maintaining cheerfulness becomes a very difficult proposal. It is very difficult to expect cheerfulness from the infirm in mind and body, although the brave ones do manage. Where poverty grooves sadness in either the individual or the group, cheerfulness might appear distant away, although the brave one do manage.
When we smile others join us, but when we cry we cry alone.

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a
cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble
carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,
by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I
remember me, his name is Falstaff............

 “Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

O  cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes!

Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,
And looked upon, I hope, with  cheerful eyes.

Go, I pray you,
Walk, and be  cheerful once again; reserve
That excellent complexion, which did steal
The eyes of young and old. Care not for me
I can go home alone.

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