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Why I Don't Believe You When You Call Me Beautiful

If you call me beautiful, you better say it like you mean it because it's going to take a lot for me to actually believe it.

Katrina Burton
Jan 30, 2017
Albany, NY
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Why I Don't Believe You When You Call Me Beautiful
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If you call me beautiful, there are a few things you need to know. I probably will not thank you. I may laugh in your face or tell you to kindly shut up. If you call me beautiful, I may completely disagree with you. I may change the subject or get a little annoyed.

No, I am not stuck up. I am not rude nor am I selfish. I simply do not believe that I am beautiful. I've heard it too many times and most of the time, it's not because you actually mean it, it's just to get what you want, isn't it? But I'm sorry because I have never been like her. I have never been able to walk into a room and turn every head. I have never looked in the mirror and loved what I saw looking back at me. I have never blushed or really been happy to hear those three words "You are beautiful." I have never wholeheartedly believed with any fiber of my being that I was beautiful.

You can say that I'm trying to be modest, that I'm just being nice and trying to hide the fact that I know I'm beautiful. You can say that I just want the attention. You can say what you want but if you call me beautiful, just be prepared because you're not going to get the reaction that you want me to have. I may ask you out of the blue one day what it was that even made you want to call me beautiful. What possibly could've caused that word to be associated with me? Was it to get in my pants? Was it what you say to every girl? Did I really catch your eye or am I just another nonexistent girl waiting in line?

I've never known why I can't see beauty with in myself. It could be society and how it forces all of us to believe that we have to be a certain way. It could be my own personal issue. It could even be the boy that laughed at me in elementary school. Whatever it is, it's drilled the thought into my brain that I am not beautiful. I am not worth it. I am not even really here. If you call me beautiful, you're wasting your breath. If you call me beautiful, it's not going to phase me. If you call me beautiful, you better say it like you mean it because it's going to take a lot for me to actually believe it.

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