I don't care much what other people think, but would be appalled by such lack of manners! Perhaps, I would say "Oh good - then it worked" Just something to throw them off balance
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Just smile and give them a sincere "Thankyou", it'll confuse them...then blow it off, in the long run it really doesn't matter what others think. There is no need to worry over something you cannot control (their comments), and they're not worth it.
hmmm i am not going to lie it would hurt but then i would say something vicious back then walk away before i would just keep quiet and that is the best course
I'm not going to pretend it doesn't hurt. The more the person means to me the more it hurts, I'm afraid.
Eventually I remind myself that - even if it is true - I'd rather work on inner beauty. That's the kind I can keep no matter how unkind time may be to me.
But it should not hurt because if you think of the sort of miserable unhappy person who would say a thing like that you should feel sorry for them. It reflects on them not you. Apart from Joan Rivers we are as God made us, we do the best we can with what we have and the sort of shallow person who would make a remark about someone's looks is not worth the time of day and neither is their opinion.
But our emotions would most likely respond for that moment before truth would set in. At least for me. A slap in the face hurts. The old adage: Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but words will never hurt me isn't true.
That is true but a smile and "God bless" takes the wind out of their sails. I had to perfect this with my mother in law who said things much worse than I was ugly, she actually said she hoped the serial killer on the loose in our area would come when my husband was out of town. She said it in front of the whole family.
I agree. A soft answer turns away wrath. Your mother-in-law needs some mental help. Not to mention salvation. I'm sure you're on your knees on her behalf often.
I just look at them with a smile on my face and say:
For beauty, I know I'm no star;
There's others more handsome by far;
My face? I don't mind it,
Coz I am behind it.
It's you folks out front that get jarred.
Tell them if they are seeing ugly they need help... cause ugly is in the eye of the beholder... then tell them all you see is beauty... everywhere... then point to someone most would consider not attractive and say... now there is real beauty...
well i do have very low self esteem so i would get a bit bummed... unless its some one i really hate and they hate me back then id just laugh it off and say something witty back...
Beauty comes from inside. I've known many people who were not great beauties but their personality was so fantastic that everyone wanted to be with them. I've reached the age where the people I know who relied on their looks are now lost and miserable. If anyone calls you ugly it shows the ugliness that is in them not you.
If people can use that exscuse for lots of things, I should use be able you use that for being ugly.
Or I'd agree. haha. It wouldn't hurt me. Because I already know.
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Eventually I remind myself that - even if it is true - I'd rather work on inner beauty. That's the kind I can keep no matter how unkind time may be to me.
But our emotions would most likely respond for that moment before truth would set in. At least for me. A slap in the face hurts. The old adage: Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but words will never hurt me isn't true.
For beauty, I know I'm no star;
There's others more handsome by far;
My face? I don't mind it,
Coz I am behind it.
It's you folks out front that get jarred.
If they said it hoping to hurt me, then why let it?
God bless you sweetheart.