Hi 👋 How are you?
I’ve faked a smile. Have you? It’s really hard to smile when there’s nothing to smile about.
When I was in college, I had a friend who I spotted was faking a smile when we were around his friends. I noticed it was happening repeatedly whenever he was with those people. I thought he knew the fact (that he was faking his smile to them), so I mentioned it to him when I was alone with him. It turned out he didn’t know – or at least he didn’t acknowledge – he was doing it, and he didn’t like someone could see through it – he felt caught. He pretended like he didn’t know what I was talking about till the end. I was very surprised that he believed his own fake smile – while nobody else did.
Don’t fake it. It’s too much work to sustain it for the rest of your life. Drop it.
🌻 Originally posted on The Question Mark Part of Me
