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Today I am thinking that it's hard to see myself as others see me. I am sure everyone can see right inside of me, and tell exactly when I am bleeding, when I am in grief, when I am despondent, when I am in joy.

But no, just because I think I'm being open doesn't mean everyone else sees what I'm feeling.

I always think I'm so transparent. Nope.

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wgseligman.livejournal.com

To answer the question in your post's title:

The world sees a smart, competent, and confident person, ready to give help and spiritual support to any who are in need, whose chief problem is her inability to say "no" when the commitments she's made might overwhelm her.

That may not be how Sabrina Mari sees herself. I'm sure Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ghandi had their problems and self-doubts too. (In the case of the latter two, I know their biographers have shown they did.)

So what? That has nothing to do with the impact they had on others, nor diminishes their accomplishments.

Now go out there and promote your book with the knowledge that everyone will feel that its author is a grand human being.

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showingup.livejournal.com

They see you as "the sexy/glamourous one" (this is how people always referred to you when they were trying to describe to me who they were talking about).

They see you as kind and lovely.

They see you as the clever, competent, charismatic one.

When I first met you, I was almost intimidated; mostly, I wanted to be like you - you seemed so graceful, un-self-consciously lovely, and almost scarily knowledgeable.

Most of the time, we're too wrapped up in our stuff to recognise other people's stuff. And yet we are often very accurate about the strengths others have - and that they don't see.

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angiedub.livejournal.com

Yes. "Most of the time, we're too wrapped up in our stuff to recognise other people's stuff. And yet we are often very accurate about the strengths others have - and that they don't see."

And I've learned to tell people their strengths because sometimes they really don't know them or get them reflected back, and it's so empowering to have someone tell me that I'm not the sum of all my doubts and fears and really am helping others.

Go Sabrina go Sabrina go!