I
think that everyone during their adolescence should have an ‘awkward
looking’ phase, no matter how awful. It builds character. It
creates personality. Awkward looking people are required to develop other
personality traits to make up for their lack of what society considers “good
looks.” These awkward people learn to be funny, compassionate, thoughtful,
intelligent, curious; these things make them beautiful on the inside as they
grow out of their awkward phase and become the beautiful people they are destined
to be.
People
who have always been considered handsome or beautiful don’t need to bother with
such things. It’s not that they can help it; they’re just nice to look at and
they have a tendency to get what they want without trying very hard. They
don’t need to have a sense of humor, they don’t need to
be able to carry on a deep conversation, they don’t need to be
compassionate or intellectual or anything because more often than not, people
already like them. But while they may be gorgeous, they're not interesting. At
all.
Okay,
maybe this isn’t always the case. It’s hardly even a 'typical’ case, and it
doesn’t necessarily have to do only with looks. It’s just that, from my
personal experience, people who have struggled at some point in their childhood/teen
years are the most interesting, wonderful people I know. People who were picked
on and made fun of are the people that end up having the most amazing lives
while the people who were “cool” at 13 ended up not graduating, getting fat,
doing drugs, getting pregnant way too young or all of the above. Or none of the
above. The point is that struggle is good...in fact, it's necessary.
Embrace your inner 13-year-old with braces, baby fat and that god awful hair
cut. Oh wait…that’s just me.
Did
you have any "awkward" tween/teen years? Personally, I like to
pretend 2002-2005 didn't actually happen.
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