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enamouredThe new "update journal" thing: sweet. However, I can post in MY journal fine but it says I can't post in communities because everything's backdated. Harrrrmph. Hate that.
I went to the library a few days ago to pick up some books for my history project, and I ended up picking up two unrelated ones: Gathering Blue, which is a sequel of sorts to The Giver, and a nonfiction book called Survival of the Prettiest. I'm currently reading the latter, and it's interesting and depressing all at the same time. Chalk it up to low self-esteem. I don't think I'm beautiful. Family members and family friends can tell me that, but I don't think so. At my best, I'm cute. Back in seventh grade, my friends and I devised a scale of attractiveness, 0 being butt-ugly, 10 being gorgeous. I'd rank myself about, oh, 5. 5 is cute. I'm cute at my best. But cute isn't good enough in some cases.
Before this becomes an interesting rant about people's preoccupations with looks and so on, there's this one quote from the book that made me think: Envy is hostility toward the very thing one desires. And that's about it when it comes to that.
I can get ready to leave for anywhere in under ten minutes. I figured that out today. I got dressed, brushed my teeth, made my hair look manageable, and washed my face all in about seven or eight minutes. This could be mostly due to the fact that I don't wear makeup, therefore eliminating time-consuming minutes. That could tie into the whole beauty thing or whatever, but forget that.
I went to the library a few days ago to pick up some books for my history project, and I ended up picking up two unrelated ones: Gathering Blue, which is a sequel of sorts to The Giver, and a nonfiction book called Survival of the Prettiest. I'm currently reading the latter, and it's interesting and depressing all at the same time. Chalk it up to low self-esteem. I don't think I'm beautiful. Family members and family friends can tell me that, but I don't think so. At my best, I'm cute. Back in seventh grade, my friends and I devised a scale of attractiveness, 0 being butt-ugly, 10 being gorgeous. I'd rank myself about, oh, 5. 5 is cute. I'm cute at my best. But cute isn't good enough in some cases.
Before this becomes an interesting rant about people's preoccupations with looks and so on, there's this one quote from the book that made me think: Envy is hostility toward the very thing one desires. And that's about it when it comes to that.
I can get ready to leave for anywhere in under ten minutes. I figured that out today. I got dressed, brushed my teeth, made my hair look manageable, and washed my face all in about seven or eight minutes. This could be mostly due to the fact that I don't wear makeup, therefore eliminating time-consuming minutes. That could tie into the whole beauty thing or whatever, but forget that.
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Date: 2004-09-23 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-23 10:02 pm (UTC)Your as beautiful as you think you are. I don't wear too much makeup, only some concealer here and there, mascara and lipgloss and it still takes me bout 30 minutes to get ready, besidies school, then it takes 60. Ugh, yeh. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I , personally don't think I'm gorgeous, but I do think I am pretty, On ur scale, I'd rank myself a 7. thats enuff ramabaling for today..