Unpretty
November 4, 2008“You will have beautiful kids for you are so beautiful”.
Someone with a failing eyesight just told me that a few hours ago. I say he has got a failing eyesight since I am anything but beautiful. And no, I am not saying that to appear humble.
I have never had any illusions as to how I look. I have accepted that, with my petite frame, unkempt ‘do, unmade up face, morena complexion, and a barely there chest, I will never be considered as beautiful by a lot of people. So it’s always new to me when people, strangers even, would tell me that I am.
Some people uses the word “charming” to describe me. But I have never seen myself as charismatic. All my life, I have been one of the boys, the joker, the ice-breaker. I have neither been graceful nor alluring. It’s so not… me. So when someone says I’m charming, I always retort that they must have a different definition of the term.
Then again, it’s so nice to be praised once in a while. Maybe I should just learn to accept how other people see me. The ugly duckling must have turned into a beautiful swan without me knowing 
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