When you learn something new about yourself how do you react to the change?

The other day I did a blog post on finding out that people consider me an attractive woman. This was news to me as in the blog I explained how I thought I was just rather average when it came to looks. What I believed I lacked in the looks department I make up in the intelligence department. So I thought it balanced out reasonably.

But it turned out I was wrong about the former and I am blessed with both looks and intelligence, which came as a little bit of a shock to me. But I am doing my best to embrace this new view I have on myself. Going back now a few years to when I was at university it was easy to tell the people who knew that they were attractive, most but not all, would walk around with this swagger sort of knowledge that they were “better” than you because they were attractive.

They had their little groups of other people they considered attractive and never really mixed with people that they didn’t consider on a par with themselves. This used to annoy me because a person is more than how they look on the inside; we are multi-faceted people with opinions, intelligence and personality just to name a few traits that make us up.

So these people were essentially excluding large numbers of people based on one factor and one factor alone. Whereas when I would…