Recapturing Beauty: Day 3

Today's challenge: Write ten things you like about yourself that have nothing to do with your appearance and ten things that you like about your appearance.

10 Things I Like About Me:

1. My ability to play. Really. It's a gift.
2. That I'm smart.
3. That I am good at my job.
4. That I am a good listener.
5. That I'm a great teacher.
6. That I can speak in public and do it well.
7. That I am creative.
8. That I can design quilts.
9. That I'm a good reader...and have read LOTS of books.
10. That people feel capable trusting me with their secrets, their thoughts, and their stories.

10 Things I Like About My Appearance

1. My eyes. They're big. And expressive.
2. My nose. It's really rather cute.
3. My smile. It's awesome. One of my old ladies from the nursing home told me I could be an advertisement for a dentist's office.
4. My legs...I take after my great-grandma and her movie star legs.
5. My uneven eye bags...I know it's silly, but they give me character.
6. My laugh lines.
7. I'm growing to like my scars...they represent what I've gone through.
8. My teeth...they are fairly straight after several long years of braces...I stopped wearing my retainer ages ago, though, which is why they are only fairly straight. And they're all mine...I learned in the nursing home that that is very important.
9. The color of my hair...granted it's had some help, but it's my natural color and I love it.
10. My feet. They're odd, don't get me wrong, but I've grown accustomed to them...when I line my feet up, my toes don't point forward...they point away from each other.

The rest of the prompt for today's challenge was to reflect on which list was more difficult to write. For me, both of them took about the same amount of time. I like things about myself, but a) it's hard to cement them in words and b)I had to get a little creative...but maybe that's the point. I honestly do like myself. I have for a while. There are things I don't like...but overall, I do like myself. I'm pretty cool, if I do say so myself. And I'm pretty photogenic. I know this. I like who I am as a person, and for the most part, I like my appearance. I'm far from unfortunate looking, and I'm pretty nice on the inside, too. Still, I'm human!

What do you like about yourself? Your appearance?