Too often, I judge my worth by how others see me. It’s a social thing, not unique to women. I think I could be happier if I was different. I wish I was either [choose one] taller, older, younger, thinner, prettier, more athletic; I want longer hair, shorter hair, shinier hair, highlights, boobs, better complexion, smaller feet, longer fingers. I wish I didn’t wear glasses. I eat well and exercise regularly. I don’t rest enough. Do you like yourself?
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Quotation from Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Another quotation from Oscar Wilde
Anniversaire heureux, Northie!
I like your silly goose story. And yes, I do like myself. I could use improvement, but that is OK too. And while I wish I were thinner, younger, could speak 100 languages, and so on, I am happy in my own skin and with my life. I feel very, very lucky!
you want shorter hair? Well that’s easily fixed
Nice sky in today’s photo
Love the comic strip, totally understand you! What a prize beauty is, very costly indeed, because once you’ve achieved perfection, someone will come along and kick you off your throne, there is always some more perfect right around the corner. At my most beautiful, my hips were too wide, my tooth crooked, my hair too curly, my ass too much, my lips too sexy, ‘Gosh you’d be perfect’ said the boyfriend if you’d lose twenty pounds, fixed your tooth, get in shape…what do you mean you love your body as it is? Don’t tell me your retiring? i gave him the boot, lost the tooth, didnt replace, got in shape, but added weight, I feel better being myself x
Girlfriend, I’ve told you before…
BE YOU! BECAUSE NOBODY DOES IT BETTER!
You silly goose, don’t duck the issues and you will have your swan song. Have you noticed how the way people look changes as you get to know them? A nice/interesting person becomes more attractive as you get to know them methinks. The mind behind is reflected in the person.
I wish I was thinner, happier, stronger, better, richer, freeer (is there such a word??) etc. But hey, gotta be realistic, I am what I am and while there is always room for improvement, I don’t want to be anyone else.
I think we’re all subject to too much of that ‘judging’ ourselves thru the eyes of others. We will all grown into graceful swans..even if we were born as simple geese!!!
TU!
Gotta love Wilde.
I think we all have a tendency to judge ourselves against others and often the stereotypes, but as I have got a bit older I have come to realize it serves no purpose and I just be myself
As for my post, I think ferries do have something like shock absorbers, or balance systems, but in the conditions that day they were having anything that boat sure was rocking
I actually have grown to like myself. :p When I was younger, I had so many things I wanted to change. But time has taught me many lessons.
Mmm, he has to pay for the awful truth, mmm
Here is the ultimate test. If you like yourself then you should have no problem just being with yourself for an extended period of time, week, two weeks. No friends, no family, just yourself. If you cannot do that then you probably don’t like yourself. I have found i can be with just me and be fine. So i guess that answers that one. I do prefer to hang out with my friends but there are times where i need a decent length of time to be alone.
I like the image with the impending storm a lot; looks like a double-exposure. The best part is the straight – no wait it’s bendy – power pole.
I like myself better sometimes than others. I am bad about thinking about “shouldas” that I can’t do anything about. When I don’t like myself it is my attitude or personality traits that bother me and not really looks.
I like myself – 80% of the time. There’s always room for improvement!
(“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” – Stendhal)
Next question: What happened to the one who laid the golden eggs?
Nice photographs.
‘we were all bonny once’ George Bernard Shaw…. and sooner or later we are not bonny anymore
i look in the mirror tho and do not see what i see, i see what i imagine others see, i see something ugly, when other people prolly wouldn’t think twice about how i look… when i DID see myself as good looking, i didn’t have more fun lol men thought they didn’t stand a chance and women thought i was going to steal their boyfriend, so nobody liked me haha… but yeah, we were all bonny once….
i think it might also have been wilde who said, when told the violin was a difficult instrument to play, “Difficult, madame?! i wish it were impossible!”…. or maybe it was Noel Coward. who cares…? it’s funny….. and beauty’s a funny thing…. entirley subjective. like yourself, and you’re beautiful to anyone who pays attention. those who don’t, aren’t so very important. BIG hug.
we both have BEAUTIFUL naturally perfect manicures
Nice photographs.
at first i didn’t get the comic.. that’s because i was reading the panels from right to left, just like a japanese manga.. lol..
yeah, it sucks, but i think about that sometimes too.. i guess we all have to be content some time..
You’re absolutely correct. Women are created insecure and we always feel ugly when people thinks we are.
Hey! Didn’t the original ugly duckling turn out to be a swan. Then she kicked that duck’s ass across the pond and took over the whole place. That’s how my mother told it anyhow…