My goodness I HATE IT when people tell me to "smile" or ask "what's wrong"? Or make some other stupid comment...for instance, I was at the airport a few days ago picking up my grandparents who are visiting me from New York. One of the security people who was checking my I.D. looked at me and said, "You don't look as happy as you do in this picture."

Uggh it's so annoying. The thing is, I'm not even "DEPRESSED" most of the time. I'm just always in deep thought. 99% of the time when people assume something is wrong with me or that I am SAD or ANGRY, I'm not at all! I'm just thinking about something that doesn't concern them...and for some reason they just can't stand it and are annoyed by it, so they have to approach me to tell me to "smile" and/or ask me "what's wrong"?

I have a feeling that if I were a 6'4, 250lb male, that no one would tell me to just "smile". Honestly I think the way that I look has something to do with COMPLETE STRANGERS telling me that I HAVE TO SMILE. I am a petite, fairly attractive young woman, so I have NOTHING to NOT SMILE about, right? If I was a man or just older/taller/bigger in ANY kind of way, complete STRANGERS would not be telling me that I should SMILE. I am 20 years old, and apparently people who are older than me feel that they have the right to tell me what my facial expressions and/or emotions should be at any given time.

I look much younger than I really am. Well guess what people, I am an ADULT and I will NOT SMILE whenever I FEEL LIKE IT. Thank you!

Seriously though, I just have a very blank expression on my face like 95% of the time. No matter what emotion I'm actually feeling inside. I could be very content and happy, and yet my facial expression is blank, or serious. I can't help that. So to all of the "smile" rainbow bunnies, please goof off thanks.