The mask covered the clothing's outfits without hiding its intention to appease the desire that humans arouse the desire to merge with the people of their passions.
The chinstrap is unpleasant, among many reasons for its recurrent and daily effort to curtail the passion that unleashes the first encounter, when body language is a whole dominated by readings of smiles and looks.
"In a first meeting between two people, the first five minutes are often the most critical period. The impressions formed in this short space of time will tend to persist in the future, and even be reinforced by subsequent behavior, which is usually not interpreted objectively, but according to those first impressions," says Wikipedia, without citing the original source.
The exciting set of signals that nurtures the natural and spontaneous smile speech in the first encounter, is now forced to focus its signals on the gaze and its surroundings, demanding quick and careful readings in troubled social conditions and subject to moral control.
This is because the mask rises like a wall against passion, taking away vigor, energy and even anger from the drive of initiatives that give illusion to emotional relationships. The contradiction is strengthened by the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Hegel, for whom "nothing important in history is done without passion," or by the sentence of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac: "Passion is universal. Without it, religion, history, art, the novel would not exist."
Fortunately, Ivonne Bordelois, in her text Etymology of Passions, appreciates that "the eyes are a privileged place for the expression of emotions from the most positive to the most destructive, and it is interesting to observe how language points out the different powers of the gaze by subtly expressing the full range of its possibilities in the expression of the affective spectrum."
But the same author reveals a tendency that has been heightened by the mask, now that the gaze takes on a dominant role in facial language. Bordelois points out: "Sight, which originally had a decidedly pragmatic orientation, seems to have evolved as the most intellectual sense, although it can also be a possessive and predatory sense."
The alert that the sight has been erected as a possessive and predatory sense sows concern, because the gaze enjoys a high privilege in the erotic process, as evidenced by the phenomena of exhibitionism and voyeurism.
"Sight has always provided its own language to express a large number of cognitive and affective states," he says. "Sight, which reflects an object, projects and reveals a subject at the same time."
Focusing the facial language on the eyes, the smile as the clearest and most eloquent expression of the joy that emerges from the energy of love is hidden and confined, in quarantine, conditioned to rationalize its spontaneity in the infantile affective bonds.
As the smile is pushed to rationality, loving those who make us happy causes the potential affective relationship to lose the liveliness, fire, ardor, enthusiasm and, above all, the momentum and speed that those first passionate moments demand.
Frustrated with the facial exchange, the gaze then searches for other expressions of body language that help to close the statement that started in the eyes and try to continue towards the smile. And with his facemask aside, he dives down hoping to find in those other silhouettes and sinusoidal shapes of the body the wrath of passions that the chinstrap frustrated in the smile crushed by the quarantine.
