🙂

I find that I am getting better at Gloria's "pleasant resting face."  I am, in public, with people who don't know me, getting more smiles from people who *think* that I am smiling at them, simply because I am not scowling all the time.  When it happens, I often feel kind of bad, because I am, essentially, lying to these people, by presenting as someone who is OK, and not constantly wishing that I were dead.

See also:

https://fibrecookery.blogspot.com/2023/10/how-are-you.html

https://fibrecookery.blogspot.com/2024/05/synack-let-me-know-if-i-can-ever-help.html