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Re: Quiet observations.
From: A (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:42:14 -0400
Michelle...
Wonderfully said...I've also wondered the same things at times.
:-) Alexis
Michelle wrote:
> Living in Chicago, where diversity runs rampant, sometimes I still feel
> like an outsider to this thing called THE HUMAN RACE. I spend a lot of
> time looking at women, comparing myself to them and wondering why I
> can't be more like them.
>
> Last week on the bus, I watched a woman quietly as she slept, with her
> head against the window. I usually think to myself, "what I wouldn't
> give for flawless skin like hers". But not this time. This time I
> noticed that this beautiful blond woman had those small familiar bumps
> along her jawline and her neck. You know the ones. The ones we get
> when we take a razor to our skin. My eyes moved down to her arms, which
> looked like a mans. She was in her early 20's. And I wondered if she
> knew.
>
> Several days later, I noticed another young woman. The hair on her arms
> was long and followed the same growth pattern as that of a man. I
> noticed the acne on her face, along her jawline, and on her shoulders.
> She was no more than 22 years old. And I wondered if she knew.
>
> Perhaps I'm not the outsider I believe myself to be. Perhaps I'm not
> the only one who feels like one. And perhaps I am not the only one that
> wonders why.
>
> In a world where we often feel slighted by the injustice... tormented
> by our the betrayal of our own bodies, perhaps God has given us a great
> gift by first allowing us to be the student, so that we may be able to
> reach out one day and become the teacher.
>
> -----------
>
> GOD is bigger! <)))><<
>
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