"You look tired"

Someone said to me the other day. 

I wasn't tired. I wasn't exhausted. I had had 8 hours of sleep, and although the weather was a little gray, I wasn't tired. 

This made me feel a little less happy on the inside. Especially because it was, after all, a gray day, and I was now conscious of the fact that I looked tired - as in, less "attractive" than usual. 

Also, it made me tired. If people thought I was tired - I had to act tired too, right? Seems crazy, but that's how we may respond to these comments. 

I am sure my friend didn't mean it in a bad way, just a sympathetic way.