Name: 醜いと感じることについて (On Feeling Ugly)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:16:04.000Z
Duration: 2 min 45 s
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We unexpectedly catch sight of ourselves in
a mirror and, in an instant, are thrown into

despair: the odd nose, the unsatisfactory
hair, the sickening skin tone, but most of

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all, the only too familiar, deeply gormless
needy expression. It feels at such moments

as if every worst fear about us must be true.
All our efforts to run away from our monster-self

have failed. A hideous spectre is, for our
brief time on the planet, truly whom we are

fated to be. Crucially, feeling ugly is entirely
independent of what anyone actually looks

like. There are beauties who are sickened
by their looks and grizzled munchkins breezily

at ease with themselves. There are always
an infinite number of reasons to find oneself

pleasant or hideous, clever or idiotic: so
what decides the matter is never in the end

the judgement of our eyes, but the condition
of our souls. It is the inner mood that guides

our gaze in its assessment of the face in
the mirror and that projects the atmosphere

of selfishness, sleaziness and furtiveness
we locate in our features. Therefore, we don't,

when we are sad, ever really need a new set
of clothes or a haircut. We require – to

put it naively and grandly – to be looked
at through the eyes of love, by someone whose

generous assessment can rescue us from the
depredations of self-hatred. It is all the

more unfortunate that – precisely when we
feel disgusting – it can be so hard to ask

another for their help. We hate ourselves
too much to dare to hope that anyone else

might like us – and may, in response to
kind enquiries, simply attempt to prove our

dislikable nature through monosyllabic avoidant
grunts. We need – in our curdled state – for

someone else to explain our condition to the
world, to make the case that we are lost and

ashamed, not monstrous or mean. We may need
(for a time at least) to let someone else's

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