Dear Diary, why must my face be this way?

Ever since I was young, people would always comment on one thing... my face. At work, at school, or just while hanging out with my friends, I would always get asked the same question: "Are you okay? You look so angry". Almost always, my answer to that was, "No, I'm fine. Why?" and then they would proceed to inform me of how pissed off I look. *sigh*

I have what you call an 'RBF' which stands for Resting Bitch Face. This means exactly what you would think it would mean. Someone with RBF almost always looks pissed off at the world until they crack a smile or change their facial expression a tad. The real kicker though is that they are not mad, it is just their relaxed facial expression that makes them look mad 24/7. It might not sound like such a terrible thing to someone else but to me, it sucks. And get this, scientists have said that RBF syndrome is indeed a real thing, and science doesn't lie.

I hate having a resting bitch face. Why? Well for one, it makes for annoying conversation starters with pretty much anyone. I have had customers at my jobs tell me that I need to "lighten up," "smile more", "not stress so much because it brings on wrinkles," so on and so forth. I have also had people approach me and ask if I ever had a problem with them because of the "bitch stare" I would give them or tell me that they were hesitant to talk to me because they "didn't want to make me even more mad than I already was."

So, some of you may be thinking, "Oh, that is an easy fix. Just smile more!" Yeah, I have tried that. I then would become so self aware of my RBF that I would smile so much that it hurt, and then people got weirded out because I just wouldn't stop smiling. I don't have the energy to be smiling all the time, so I just resort back to my resting facial expression.

There are plenty of celebrities out there with RBF, and they're not all bad, right?

So next time you see someone, whether they are your friend, relative, or stranger at the grocery store, don't always jump the urge to ask them why they look so pissed off. No, I'm not mad at you. No, I am not making this face because I am bored of our conversation. I just look like this and I can't help it! Say a prayer for everyone out with with RBF. I feel you.