1/2/2023 0 Comments Blush blushThe science of blushing is straightforward, if not entirely comprehensive. Why do people blush? What does it mean? And what, if anything, can I do about it? It’s something I’ve learned to live with over the years, but with this acceptance has come curiosity. Concentration, praise, and sudden attention all also can spark the slow-burning pink glow. Yes, sometimes I blush when I'm talking to boys I like-but almost as often I blush when talking to the ones I don't. I have blushed during inexplicably mundane conversations with postmen and bank clerks and shop assistants as well as with handsome medical types. Often, there's no answer to this question. And there always seems to be that one helpful soul happy to point it out. At its best, I like to think it lends me a Shakespearean modesty “ a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.” At worst, it feels like my face is on red alert, throbbing with heat and garnering all the wrong kinds of attention. It’s not an entirely unfamiliar feeling, this flush. I’m at the doctor’s and my usual physician is on vacation, so they’ve sent me in to see a replacement to whom I believe Rachel from Friends would refer as “cute-boy doctor.” I’m 35, happily married, and reasonably sensible, all of which make it worse that I immediately feel my cheeks start to redden when he introduces himself to me, then spend my entire appointment distracted from my tonsillitis symptoms because I’m concerned that I look like a doll with huge pink cheeks drawn on.
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