Why it matters...
Serious question. If a friend tells you you’re wonderful, do you believe them, mentally brush it off or somewhere in between? Just happened to me again and as I’m unMasking now, I’ve realised I’ve never believed it. But that possibly they meant it. I realise I've probably been taking a dim view of myself... (see photo) Since I wrote that this morning, someone else (one of my daughters) has said exactly the same thing. So now I'm struggling with the idea that just maybe I am genuinely perceived as wonderful rather than it just being a matter of People Being Nice. That doesn't sit easily with me. When I was 9 someone took a photo of me having a tantrum - aka meltdown - and I cannot erase the image from my memory. Back then, photos arrived weeks later from the chemist's and I remember the family looking through and laughing when they got to the one of me with a wildly distorted face, enraged that someone could belittle me by taking a photo when I was completely out of cont...