Wearing Your Emotions

There is an expression that people "wear their emotions on their sleeve". It means that they cannot hide their feelings. The reality is that many people wear their emotions on their lips. I am talking about cold sores. Just this week I have seen three people in stressful situations. Within a day or so, the cold sore appears. When certain people feel extreme stress, for good reasons or bad, an unsightly sore will pop up. It hangs around for about a week. Nobody mentions it but somehow when you talk to the person it is hard to avoid staring at it. Now that I am thinking about it, I have never seen a man with a cold sore. I guess that is just another thing that separates the sexes.