How different do you think the world would be, if we could ''see'' emotions?

Say everyone always had some kind of bubble above their head which displayed what they were currently feeling, or whatever mix thereof. Like emoticons I guess. Happy faces, angry faces, anxious faces, excitement, sadness, what have you. If they are feeling more than one emotion, like someone in love; a love emoticon and a nervous emoticon. Very rudimentary, but enough to let you know, as a whole, what every single person was feeling.

How different would everything be? If you saw a stranger at the bus stop with an angry bubble, would you actually ask him how he is doing? If you were at the bus stop, and a stranger with an apathy bubble asked you how you were, would you take him seriously?

But of course, it’s not like emotions can never be perceived by people, as it is now. But if there was no way to mistake how someone felt…Would anything make a difference? Would people treat each other differently? If you could not hide what you are feeling, would the world be different?