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[ladytairngire]

If someone says I look pretty
when I don't feel pretty
I don't handle it well.
I guess it's because
if you don't see what I see
I can't accept that you're right
or else my faith in my own judgement is shaken
and then what am I supposed to think
on the days when I feel pretty
but your eyes suggest
something else?

Comments

[pregnant_lizzie]

*hugs* I think you are a beautiful mama. But I know how you feel, I've had days like that too.

when my eyes suggest something else

[oregonnerd]

that's just the random crossing of events, I mean i's, I mean eyes...
g
p.s. This does actually remind me of something from the Bene Geserit Head (the grand mama or whatever; I must not be awake). I know I'm unhandsome, which means I have fielded a lot of comments ungracefully. I sym and em pathize.

Re: when my eyes suggest something else

[ladytairngire]

So I'm unconsciously paraphrasing Dune?
Wow.

Re: when my eyes suggest something else

[oregonnerd]

I'll look it up when I have more energy for someone else's work (I'm actually finishing the project I started when I was 14...and naturally discovering it's the beginning...but realizing that the beginning is eventually going to belong to someone else; mathematicians are struggling toward the definition that I decided couldn't be approached by mathematics because of integral problems, interestingly enough) and when I'm more sure of your confidence in yourself. I'm quite sure you're beautiful and a few more other [positive] things, just as I've been told often enough that I'm (eh, fill in the word) to realize some misguided women think so and that I don't think so and can't. You have the beauty of body, soul and mind and seem to pursue them all. You're one of the ones that gave me hope enough to pursue the train of thought for forty years, and there were others like you before. I can't imagine actually belonging to a group or even attempting to say what I think about things like reality any more...except, basically, in cases like

Re: when my eyes suggest something else

[ladytairngire]

Regard me socially as something that just crawled from under a rock and is blinking in the unaccustomed light and breeze.

I pretty much do just that (in a completely non-insulting way), with the added descriptor of "who happens also to sometimes tap into the same psychic frequency, a connection I do not at all understand but recognize".

so there ya go. :)

[aellwynde]

The reason I think of you as a writer is that you have a way with words that makes it seem as though you're plucking them from my head and heart- I have a feeling I'm not the only one who relates to your words. Not just this one, but others too. THAT is the earmark of a good writer.

On another note though- odd to know someone's heart and mind, bits and pieces, but not know the physical beauty. I think of you as beautiful, but I have only a vague feeling of what you actually look like. I base my judgments of beauty on what I see of you here.

Have a cup of tea. Be mellow. Enjoy the newly turned fall air. Watch your kinglet. Remember what matters.