have you ever been told you have "sad eyes"?

[xXSufferingXx]

i was with a person, who i had just recently met, and things were going great, (and also ended great).
but here's the thing... when we were out and about, browsing the city and having fun; we took a lot of selfies.

then like the next week we were back to just chatting bc we don't live close.

but anyway, we were looking at the pics, sending them back and forth to each other,
and the person told me i had "sad eyes".
bc we had also been talking about like depression or whatever.

but i'm glad the person told me that, because it kinda gives you sympathy or empathy.
that even on a fun great day, apparently my eyes still show the rough live i've had, even when i'm smiling.

it's like... it's a bad thing obviously, but it also kinda lets people know the seriousness of how much bad shit has happened to me.
that i can't even hide it behind a huge smile.

i can't explain it properly, but i'm glad they see it's true.
that i'm not just making up sob stories.
it's literally so true that i can't even hide it on my best days lol

 

[scary]

A few times when I was a kid, yeah. I remember vividly one time when I was standing outside waiting to be picked up from school some kids asked me "are you sad? you look sad" when I was literally just standing there. Now I don't really don't get asked that (cause I'm a shut-in lol) but I have either very sad or 'dead' eyes

 

[darksouls]

never, people think that I am doing well

 

[burninghill]

Not necessarily 'sad eyes', but if I'm not making any sort of expression people ask if I'm okay a lot, so my resting face must look quite sad LMAO

 

[thelostautistic]

Not exactly. But I look at photos of me now and definitely see them. There's no light left