How do you see yourself in the mirror when you look into it?
I see myself as getting older and in need of some serious facial intervention. I see gravity taking over. I see someone who very soon no one will want.
Why do you think the bar is set so incredibly high for women?
Models. Playboy magazine. Porn. Youth. Double edged sword, really. Men are quick to point out a woman's attributes and we in reality take it to heart.
And can women really live up to this? (some women seem too and they seem so successful)
For every woman that complains about her kids and her spouse, there's another sitting home alone wanting someone to share her life with. For every woman single and living large but feeling so alone there's a woman with three screaming kids and a past due mortgage wishing she were single. We can only live up to our own potential. The rest is fantasy.
Is anyone here actually living up to this image of the in control and perfectly styled professional women? (i'd like to know how! )
HAH! I have an aunt who owns a very successful modelling/ acting agency in NY. She's rich-stinking rich. She came from literally nothing. Dresses like a homeless woman. She can be a real scatter brain. Success is different things to different people. I may never be the book version of 'successful', but I refuse to be a failure.
How many of you are generally happy with the way you are present yourself phsyically, professionally?
I am never satisfied with how I present myself, although I'm told I do so very well (go figure). Professionally-I'll let you know when I become a professional...at..something.
It's interesting that you bring this up. I've been going through the same things in my head after seeing a recent fantastically done thread. We know it's wrong to envy and second guess, but we do it anyway. We doubt our own contributions to our worlds, sometimes giving up on them. It is those times that I fall back on the things I KNOW I do well. Logic tells us we aren't in competition with anyone. Emotions tell us we are. Know what you contribute to your world is worthwhile and and that 'perfect person' has flaws too. She just wears more make-up
