[[ the ugly duckling

11:16 PM

The Ugly Duckling

there was once an ugly duckling who was so ugly, everyone shunned her.
nobody loved her.
the ugly duckling did not realise how horrendous she looked at first.
she was happy with herself.
she thought she was pretty. and that was all that mattered.
she lived happily.
as she grew up, she faced the scorn of people around her.
the superficial world hurt her badly.
she changed her perception about beauty. She abhorred the person she saw in the mirror.
As the ugly duckling grew up, she became more beautiful.
She became more self concious.
she looked back on her past and laughed at the ugly duckling she once was.
she knew full well that she wasn't a swan. but at least she wasn't the ugly duckling she once was.
however, little did she know that her confidence actually decreased.
she was getting so self concious that she constantly found fault about herself, and she became depressed.
at first she was glad to walk out of her shadow of being an ugly duckling.
no. she was more than glad. she was elated.
but as time went by, she saw the superficial duck (omg sounds so unglam) she had become.
she realised she was as superficial as the people around her.
she saw things in the same way as other people saw. she talked about things just like the people around her. she fit in so well.
she was no longer the dysfunctional, dull ugly duckling she was when she was young.
but there was one difference. she did not keep her secrets to herself.
she was an open book.
open to attacks from the world around her.
then some part of her wanted to go back to being an ugly duckling again.
at least she was more truthful to herself and the people around her were truthful too.
now the duck sees herself as an ugly duckling once more.
she knows she shouldn't expect to be treated like a swan.
she knows she's not good enough.
so why not be an ugly duckling?
afterall that's what she's meant to be.

now this ugly duckling just wants to find a safe place to hide her ugly face.