Hi Bronwyn,

I also don’t like how I look and I am self-conscience around other people.  I think we can all sense that times are changing. As someone said in another post I read, people don’t seem to desire face-to-face interaction as much anymore. Everyone is on their smart phones and online, and it is this technology that is being created that is the future many of our children and grandchildren will be raised in. Things we couldn’t even imagine growing up will be their reality. I think we can all do a lot of good if we realize this potential for either a lot more darkness or light online and then do what we can to make the world brighter for the future. I think you will find the more you focus on helping others, and especially the future, the more you will begin to love yourself and life more.

Online is cool because you can totally control the image you project to people, but it can also be sort of fake, too. Lately I have found a lot happiness in working on myself by identifying the things I do that make me happiest, and the people who make me unhappy, and doing more of the former, and being around less of the latter. Every day we can become better, especially if we know the person who we want to become. I only have a vague idea of this person now, but every time we improve we move closer to this person.