Looking at this blog a few days ago, I decided I didn't like the colors of it, so out of boredom, I decided to change it, choosing one of their choices of "themes", and boy do I regret it. Not only did it lose many of the "widgets", as they call them, on the sides, some of which I was able to eventually recover, though I still don't like the way it presents them, but it incorrectly and incompletely displays the posts. The one right below this one, if you click on it, shows correctly that the items I listed were written as bullet points but when one looks just at the blog, it throws them all together as if they are part of a sentence. So I apologize for the new look. Yet once again, I've had to sacrifice reality in favor of beauty.
I think I'm just getting better at differentiating which is real self-confidence, and which is assumed. The real is usually understated, and just makes the person fun to be around, because they're comfortable with themselves and know what they're about. The fake (ie: the overbearing confidence so obviously masking a deeper sense of inadequacy) generally comes across as controlling - it steps on others' toes - or makes you feel like you're the unwilling particpant in a performance - so it's still really irritating.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point, Kate, and well stated.
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