I don’t remember how many years ago it was that I was on the internet. And you know how sometimes there’s this column on the right side of the screen with attention grabbers for other articles? Now, actually, I think they’re embedded within articles and at the bottom of articles. Anyway, I saw a picture of this girl with the caption, “The Ugliest Girl in the World.” I thought, “that’s really fucked up! That poor girl.” Then a few years ago I was searching for inspirational videos to show my patients and I came across this one. I was like, “holy shit! That’s that girl!!!!”
When I watch this video I am reminded that I pitied her the first time I saw her picture in the right-hand column of my computer screen. When I see her now, I admire her. She is smart. She is brave. She is courageous. She is resilient. She is ambitious. She is goal-oriented. She is driven. She is the heroine of her own story. She is what I wish I was. Now I pity me.
So, in a way, it seems as though this video is the opposite of motivating for me. But the truth is, she inspires me to look inside myself and answer her question. She encourages me to do better, to be better, to stop living in fear. She gives me hope that anything is possible.
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