I have noticed that when you are pregnant people smile at you a lot. They look at you, look at the belly, and then just sort of smile up (or down) at you. In a city where I am automatically weirded out when a stranger says “hello” to me, it is really sort of a sweet occurrence.
I find myself wondering why the smile? Does much of humanity just love a pregnant lady? Are we all just sort of in awe of the whole pregnancy and new life thing? Are they remembering their own experiences with their children? Maybe they are just smiling in thanks that it is me and not them.
I wonder if people smiled at the mothers of Idi Amin, Pol Pot, and Stalin, and Charlton Heston while those women were pregnant with them (and yes, I consider Charlton Heston worthy of that group). Huh, if those people knew then what they know now….
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