"Resting Bitch Face" isn't about facial expressions—it's an emblem of self-confidence, a symbol of those who possess the audacity to live authentically through independent thinking … because we comprehend that thinking is dependent on different ways the brain processes information, and that our brains operate independently from the social norms, and reject blindly accepting rules and social programming without questioning.

It represents the quiet defiance of those who refuse to seek external permission for their perspectives, experiences, or responses to the world around them.

This is the attitude of the woman who has grown up on the outside looking in … knowing that she belonged on the outside … And was in acceptance of not belonging to the inside, and did so without harboring prejudice or desiring to belong. It has always come with a ‘knowing” that life was just different. Not right or wrong, better or worse, but knowing that it was just a different way of seeing and perceiving.

Knowing is the “aging into” and becoming a finer vintage, by letting go of the need to explain one’s opinions and perspectives to people who will never “get it”. It doesn’t matter if others accept or understand what we think or believe. While it broadens one’s personal knowledge by comprehending other people’s point of views, it is not the obligation of others or ourselves to accept other’s beliefs, reasonings or realities.

The problem isn’t about being in agreement, but it lies in not being in-touch with or surrounded by open minded people that are interested in sharing ideas. With the possibility of seeing reality through a different perspective. That is being part of a community that grows mentally and spiritually. Not by adapting other’s realities, but by broadening your own and coming into a place of self-awareness with renewed energy, to live in a state of genuine authenticity.