You ever have one of those days where you just listen to yourself talking and think, "Damn! I'm good!"?  Well, yesterday was one of those for me.

In a discussion with one acquaintance who was feeling particularly down on herself:

"Who you are when no one else is around is all that matters. And THAT is what you have to carry with you always."


And after helping a friend work through some intense disappointment:

"Tears are just the expression of pain passing through."

I'm sorry - I LOVE those.  Maybe I'm talking to myself more than I was them, but DAMN I'M GOOD!!!  

Who I am when I sit in my room by myself is soo beautiful to me. It's probably the only times I really see myself that way. And knowing that with every tear shed, pain is LEAVING me, that's just something totally and completely positive that hits me in a place where I can keep that with me.  I love it.

And many thanks to the acquaintance who said of my before-surgery pic: "That doesn't make you NOT beautiful."  Still have some work to do to integrate THAT into my psyche, but... thanks. Really, truly... thanks.

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