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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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Ynotjenn · F

Sad part is that the person was probably just being a dick. They probably didn't even really think that way. People are just jerks. I see it all the time here. People just want to bring each other down.

I understand messing with the trolls. Trying to bust them out. Even I'm guilty of that. But to just try to bring a girl down in the worst possible way because you think it's cute...is just shitty.

Try to keep that in mind. It probably had nothing to do with you.

WildHeart · 41-45, F

Yes I think he was having a tough day. We've never spoken before but his first msg to me was, " take down that ugly picture of yourself woman, you look ugly"
I hate that someone I don't know makes me feel this way. I usually don't need to hear compliments to feel pretty, but all it took was one man who I probably would never know to make me feel this insecure inside. I was meaning to post about it for a while now but today a client complimented me and instead of saying thank you, I became all tensed wondering in my mind why is she lying.

Ynotjenn · F

@WiseGirl: People's words leave dings in our armour. It's unfortunate but true. You just have to figure out how to mend the dings :)

WildHeart · 41-45, F

@Ynotjenn: haha! I like the way you put that. All this can be mended you are right :)

Ynotjenn · F

@WiseGirl: 👍