Because I said so

Everyone asks me why I am always so serious. I reply that I was cursed by my Mother. Every thing she said came true! For example, she said that just because everyone else jumps off a cliff that I shouldn’t jump, also. Luckily, I only suffered a broken ankle.

She repeatedly hoped that I would have children, and that they would turn out to be just like me. I may bark loudly at strangers and chase my tail, but my dogs are still my children and I don’t mind that they are just like me.

But seriously, it was the final words from my Mother that came true which caused my eternal look of seriousness. Since that moment she uttered those words, I am constantly asked, “Why so serious”?

I remember it well. It was a dark and stormy night. My Mother asked if I was seriously going out dressed like that. I looked at her with an expression that said “Seriously?” And then she uttered those final, fateful words; “Careful or your face will freeze like that.”