I’m ugly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A smile goes a very long way to make any face pretty!

Please don't say this. Nobody should be told to smile.

Please don’t say THIS.
Nobody said she had to smile. The PP just stayed a social truth—-that a smile goes a long way to making a face appear “pretty”—and since “not ugly” is OPs stated objective, reminding her of this is not counterproductive or overstepping.
OP can choose to ignore.
And so can you.
But it’s silly to pretend it isn’t true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I realized today that I’m post prime and just ugly now. I hate my face. I hate taking pictures because I generally just dismayed with my face. I am fit and dress well. So there’s just nothing I can do.

Rant over.

I was born ugly

[Anonymous]

“Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain. But a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”

I have found that reading Proverbs 31 and setting my goal on becoming that woman has reframed my own definition of beauty, and I no longer look to the mirror but to the heart and to my actions to define this. It’s not easy when the world tempts us all daily to value/devalue ourselves and others based on physical attractiveness—but it does help to reframe and reset my own values and try to love that out accordingly.