I am tired of the Uglies. Maybe you also have seen them hanging around. Honestly, they seem to be everywhere. Even worse, it seems like every human being has an Ugly or two hanging around with them. Some Uglies are extremely obvious; you can see them from a mile away, but other Uglies hide behind a pretty curtain. With time, they will always peek their little heads around the curtain to peer at you and the more you look back at them, the uglier they seem to be. The saddest part is that some of the ugliest Uglies I have ever seen are the ones staring back at me from the mirror. Sigh. It gets discouraging looking at all these Uglies in the world. You have probably met a few of them too. They go by names like selfishness, violence, disloyalty, manipulation, boasting, abuse, gossip, criticism, disrespect, apathy, deceit, anger, betrayal, unfaithfulness, corruption, oppression, greed, unkindness.... oh, and there are a whole lot more of them! The tricky thing about an Ugly is that it takes on the face of the person who carries it, so we say that Mary is a gossiper and Kyle is greedy, and we fail to divorce the person from the Ugly. Mary is afraid and Kyle feels inferior, so the Uglies jumped on their backs for a free ride. Mary needs affirmation and Kyle needs support, but the power to love them lies dormant when all we can see are their Uglies.
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