Letters to the Editor
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Isn't it crazy....
Isn't it crazy how most people can remember every unkind thing ever said or done to them but it's so hard to recall the nice things? LW, still feeling the pain of this betrayal a mere twelve months later is normal. Most people twice or three times your age can recall every word of some high school taunt. My 70-year-old father just recently retold (for the millionth time) of some humiliating experience with a teacher somwhere around 1949. I have been complimented on my looks countless times, but it's the few times somebody in junior high said something mean that resonate in my head, word for word, to this day. I guess we are all that way. That's just being a sensitive person. Don't see that as a negative!
Like others have assured you, those peoples' voices will fade with time, you just have to try not to think about it too often, reject what you can and work on what you can't. Look, yes, there is always a grain of truth in even the meanest taunts, even if the "truth" is only that somehow you were naive enough to trust these vipers and they punished you for it.
If I had a dime for every time some of my beautiful friends told me that they thought they were ugly...I hope you learn to see yourself as beautiful, as most people are in their own ways.