I have a really good friend who struggles. Who doesn’t wear rose tinted glasses when she looks at herself. In fact quite the opposite. She like many of us cannot see what others who look at her can see. When she looks in the mirror I suspect it’s like the ‘funny’ mirrors at the fair. She doesn’t see her strength, her kindness, her humour, her intelligence, her friendship, her fitness, her parenting, her plate spinning, her beauty. She sees big hands and squishy bellies that aren’t there, she sees unmade beds and flaws where others do not. So deeply engrained is this view that compliments wash off her not even getting a chance to stick. She will feel uncomfortable reading nice words.
I am saving up to pay for her to have laser eye surgery, so she can see what we see when she looks in the mirror. I may also get ear implants for her so she hears the positive and the molecule of negative is no longer amplified so loudly. Because I really want her to see and to hear. Because she needs to. I hope one day she will. But I know it's not easy. Take Care Paul
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