Layered

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
-Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes I wonder how other people see me.

More often than I'd like to admit.

It's not that I'm a vain person...at least, I don't think it is...

I wonder if I've ever caught someone's eye and made them look twice because they liked what they saw.

I'm not a classic beauty by any stretch of the imagination.

But we all have different tastes...

different strokes for different folks and all that.

I've always kind of thought I could win people over with my personality...

which is hysterical, because I don't think of myself as a good person.

Or, at least, being a good person doesn't come naturally to me.

I try to be.

I try so, so hard.

But I don't always win, and the battles are bloody.

And so, every so often, I wonder if anyone looks at me and likes what they see, without the visual being tempered by kindness or being funny or generous.

It's not important.

It's more that I'm curious.

I just don't like not knowing.