this morning #1103.

this morning, when he told me that i should “smile more,” i swore back at him. cursed him & kept on moving. how dare he? he doesn’t know me from adam. eve even. he has no idea how often i smile, no insight into how my day’s been. maybe i just lost my job. maybe i’m ashamed of my teeth. maybe i’ve already been smiling since the moment i got up & now i’m taking a break. we all deserve breaks. HE. DOESN’T. KNOW. his motive’s partially flirting & partially toxic positivity. i’ve got no beef with smiling. smiling’s fine. as for smiling more, fine. he’s right. i could certainly smile more. believe me, if i had more reason to, i would. it’s not his place to remind me of that though.