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Show Motherlunge a novel 89 13. Advice For If You're Ugly It may turn out that you are burdened, like your mother, with a long equine face and an abundance of body hair. You may require corrective lenses that over time will leave a salmon-colored dent on each side of your nose. You may smile too widely and in general be a person whose facial expressions betray a certain emotional lability. If so, buck up. People-especially boys if they have a sense of humor and are at least partially inclined toward girls, sexually speaking-won't mind as much as you think. With your looks, you likely won't disappoint in bed or worry about losing them (your looks, I mean) or, worse, implement desperate measures-heavy makeup comes to mind-to prevent same. Your "good features" will receive abundant praise, and you'll feel free to dress in an "interesting" way. Compared to beautiful girls, you'll get less shit, I should imagine, and more personal space. But what if you find, some time into the project of growing up, that you are spiritually unattractive? That you have in yourself a surplus of rage, bitterness, envy? A lack of understanding, a lack of hope for change? A heart that's dense and inward, small and tight, wedged inside your ribcage the way a blackhead packs a pore? I don't know. I don't. Here's what they told me: Love is never having to say you 're sorry. Love is letting go. |