Just vain enough
Vanity, fair
I am not photogenic. I look much better in person. In photos growing up I look goofy, awkward, odd. But I was a beautiful child. I was a child model! And I always believed I was beautiful because well, my family always said so. Because I believed I was pretty I was never that vain. I mean. I’m vain but I’m not that vain. Vain enough to apply filters on my instagram? Yes. But not so vain that sometimes I let a double chin photo slide. Yes.
Like everything it’s good to be kind of into things but not to take them all that seriously, like how you look. Not taking things that seriously is the best way to live. I don’t know what happened but my algorithm is so much self help it’s like is the universe trying to tell me something??!! Because I already know all that lol. Like when I read habits of the productive. I already do all those too, naturally. You don’t get to a 90 book publishing count without having some ingrained productive habits! But I guess I like to reinforce that I am right? LOL!
Don’t take things personally. Everyone is going through stuff you don’t know about. Keep a sense of humor. Stress is a killer.
Anyway, I feel bad for the youth. I told my kid, how terrible that everyone now has to be so attractive because of social media! When I went to college we all gained the freshman 15 coz we all ate so much pizza and Chinese food at 3am and also drank many sugary cocktails. But now the freshman 15 is MINUS 15 pounds. That’s so sad. I told her, when I was young you could be kind of a mess and not perfect and still think you were beautiful. We were so beautiful even with our bad haircuts and real thrift store clothes that were five bucks and not the “vintage, this is now five hundred dollars” kind. Maybe I sound like an old man yelling at a cloud, but maybe that’s why the kids are so nostalgic for the 80s and 90s because we were present.
I’m of the age where I give a LOT of unsolicited advice LOL. You’re all beautiful and imperfect and enjoy it because one day you will be OLDDDDDD LOL!
Happy Monday! Monday is my favorite day because when you love your job you never work a day in your life! My draft is killing me and I literally feel like I have been working on it for two years and it’s only been REDACTED weeks. I can do a 300 page revision in REDACTED weeks. Don’t tell my editors!!!! HAHAHA!!!
XOXO
Mel
EG so Vein