Smiling and RBF...
I am one of those women always being told to smile. I have resting bitch face and so even when I'm perfectly content I apparently look somewhat annoyed. Or focused. Or stop looking at my face if you don't like it...
This has been going on since I was a child. I never understood it. I'd be happily engrossed in a book, playing dolls, or color-forms and someone would tell me to smile because I'm so much prettier when I do. Absolutely no difference between that and sitting behind a bank of monitors focused on work. I wondered why I needed to be pretty when I'm busy...and what kind of person would just smile for no reason whilst reading or working? At myself? Alone? Who does that?
Another thing I don't get is the people who light up with a big grins whenever you greet them. I'm not Ed McMahon nor do I have a giant check for a million dollars with their name on it, so they might want to ratchet down your excitement at seeing me. Nothing I bring to the table will elicit that kind of joy.
But I digress...my point is I'm a person who has been told to smile on at least a weekly basis for my entire life.
a much younger, much prettier version of me...
My struggle...
My philosophy...
My answer to people who think they are entitled to a response...
But today a co-worker commented that every time I reference this being my last week ....I smile. A lot. I'm super smiley apparently and was completely unaware of it.
So this is me now?
It's amusing the people I like and annoying some others...hard not to smile at that.
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