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I Have a Fear

I teach my girls all the time on being confident and never letting others opinions of you pull you under the waves until you find yourself drowning. I thought I was a very confident woman, I used to be okay with my body image and the way I looked. That was until I joined SW a while back and decided to use my picture as my profile image, only to be told by a total stranger oneday that I was ugly. Of course I didn't respond but when I went offline his words started to work on me. Then I knew that I was not only lacking in self confidence but I was not strong enough to fight off negative opinions. You may say why does it matter what a stranger blurted out to you? Do you know that even a stranger can bring out fears in you that you never knew existed? I know, because I've gone through it. I still hear those words echoing in my head somedays when I look in the mirror to brush my hair.

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Pherick · 41-45, M

I am sorry someone was that rude to you. No one deserves that kind of cruelty.

WildHeart · 41-45, F

I think what's more important in this situation is that I should be able to be confident in the way I look and how I was created. In my eyes no one is ugly, there are many that have ugly personalities or ugly crimes that they commit but that's not how we are born. Ugliness is created by experiences or by mental illness that pushes one to ugly actions. All in all if a person feels beautiful inside then no one can take away their confidence. I know I'm a beautiful individual, I know I have a heart of gold but it's not a good feeling looking in the mirror asking yourself, "why am I not attractive?"