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[quote=Anonymous]OP-serious comment.  Maybe you could read up on reincarnation....Ive read a few stories over the years of people who share your pain...and they somehow convince themselves that in a past life they were gorgeous but vain and cruel...and so to grow spiritually, they chose to live this life in a less than stellar body.

I have learning disabilities and on my worst days or years, I push through by wondering to myself if I was a brilliant, selfish a#$$hole in a former life...and so I reincarnated as a woman with learning disabilities in this life to experience the painful opposite.  I don't care if it's fiction, it gets me through the worst times.

Also, beauty standards change based on location and time.  In the early 90s, I had a face and build that was considered...symmetrical and marketable..at least by small town Midwestern standards :-).  Now, I look at the curvy, fit, women of color that trend on social media and are in the public eye and sigh...the envy---my early 90s self would not feel beautiful in our culture now.

I read an obituary of a woman my age earlier this evening.  I felt like crying with tremendous regret and shame when I read her obituary because she clearly spent her brief time on Earth seeking knowledge and wisdom and teaching what she knew at the college level.  Her obituary was about her interesting mind and tremendously empathic soul.  I suspect she was not looks focused.  It seemed like she was happily married to someone equally interesting and had built so many good connections with others during her time here.  If someone told me this when I was 20 I would have rolled my eyes. Really, truly I mean this---while there are limits on what you can change with your physicality...you can make your mind more beautiful and complex over time.

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