Why are you always happy?

Yesterday at work something very weird happened. During our lunch break, the conversation focused on me, at least for a couple minutes. My group sat next to another coworker, she’s older in age than most of my group, from another generation that would often work more than the others unprompted and at the same time complain that she’s doing too much and nobody else does anything. At least that’s what my coworkers say about her when she’s not present, but I don’t really see a reason to share the critiques. She’s rather friendly at lunch time and my group and hers get along well, even if they throw shade at her, they do that for pretty much everyone—I suspect every single group at work gossips about each other in the same way. Today, she made a question directed at me, the title of this post, and people started to give answers and share their thoughts about me. They said things about how I eat carelessly and don’t really gain much weight. I am a bit fat but it’s true that I don’t look…