You and me? We're so much more than merely pretty.

​I've spoken before about my sometimes crippling self-esteem issues. Honestly, I can't even pinpoint the reasons behind them. I can't point to a specific moment or year or experience that made me suddenly go, "God no" when I looked in the mirror. It was a thousand tiny things that slowly accumulated over time, like a very slow, but steady, snowfall that turned into a heavy blanket of self-loathing.
The messed up thing about it is, when I look in the mirror I can separate my feelings about what...