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Have you ever wondered how someone in utter distresss and someone in utmost joy appears similar. If observed from some distance that is. And if you are not plugged in to the situation, more often than not, you cannot tell whether one is crying or bursting with laughter. The facial expression, the body language is almost the same in both the circumstances. The curling of the lips, the body jerks, tears rolling down, eyes reducing to slits, eyebrows drawing closer, forehead forming deep furrows and the almost smothered whimpering at irregular intervals. There isn't much of a difference. To an outsider so to speak. And if you're the one being observed, of course it's a hell of a difference then.