Love Lessons

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of me I had never gotten to explore before. I find it easier to say hello to a person on the street now, or tell a friend how I am really feeling, or share a joke with someone. In opening up, the loneliness as faded and it has been replaced by happiness.
For most of my childhood, I was told how ordinary I looked. I grew to accept the fact that I would never be a beauty, and in fact, I tried to be plain. It was better not being noticed than being called names. Michael was the first person who ever told me that I was beautiful and really meant it. Every time he looked at me, whether or not he said it, I felt pretty. Now I can walk down the street and not worry about how others look at me, but how I look at myself. I do not get concerned over what other people think, but how I feel about myself.
Of all of the things I struggled with as a child, trust was the most fragile of them all. I was betrayed by my father at age eight and I have never been able to trust anyone for ...

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