BEAUTY AND BRAINS
If I ever tell you I'm not beautiful, pay me no mind. I'm only being modest. No, I'm not drop-dead gorgeous, but neither am I ugly or unattractive by any standard. This acute awareness of my own beauty is why, to a large extent, I stopped posting my pictures on my social media pages ( Facebook and Instagram especially). I don't need the validation of strangers on the internet to feel attractive. It's also why I never feel pressured to dress up to the standard of other young ladies of my ilk. I only baff up on my own terms. Maybe I would have put more effort into my physical appearance if I were lacking in other areas, like intellectually. But the fact that this is not so worsens my conceitedness. I'm perfectly cool with showing up anywhere in a basic outfit and zero makeup, knowing that the moment I open my mouth to speak, most wrong assumptions about me are corrected. I think that these liberties I and others like me take is what has, for a long...