1. The Plain Girl - Chapter 6: Crash Recovery


    Date: 10/24/2017, Categories: Love Stories, Author: xreynolds, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories

    also learn to use your ‘pause button’ . In the moment, when your feelings are overwhelming you, try to not just plunge headlong into things. When a girl is fifteen years old, that may be all she knows. I am happy to see that you are starting to respond to the inescapable fact that this approach doesn’t really work very well. Another step is knowing that your emotions have no interest in your future. They are only concerned about right now. If you want a better future, you have to let the future unfold in a different way. When you aren’t thrilled with the way your world looks in the morning, ask yourself who was minding the store the night before.” Karla was vital and alive. This came to expression in her zest for life and all that could be experienced in that way. But she was also painfully aware of the sour notes that often sounded from the bells she would ring, even when to everyone around her everything looked great. This was the inescapable reality that had come to a head yesterday. What formerly evaded her focus, today stood before her in its entirety. “I reach for life, but all I seem to reap is chaos at the best. Even that floozy Alice thought I had the world by the ass. But none of them know how empty it all seems to me.” “The real you is satisfied only by the truth. What other people think of you will never be a substitute. Your personality, on the other hand, only knows its continuously changing cravings. The strength that you need in order to break in that wild ...
    horse arises within you. It comes in response to your devotion to the truth. People who are content to live a lie will give you nothing but a hard time, and never support that. You even have to consider your own personality as a welcome victim before truth. You must sacrifice the wants of your personality for a future that is built by the truth that you seek. You are so courageous Karla. It has always worked like that for you in the past, and it won’t fail you now either.” “Mother used to tell me that,” Karla reflected, “but I never understood it before now. I guess I just needed more past to get my bearings.” “But, you can’t allow yourself to be lost in life. How much of who you truly are on the inside do you know? Here’s a little test. Consider this. Can you really say that a girl who wasn’t as pretty as you, but otherwise would be just like you, would have had the same successes that you have?” The answer was obvious and Karla remained silent just shrugging her shoulders. “No, of course not,” Claire continued. “Most of the time what people are giving back to you is only a reflection of how your beauty affects them. It’s hard for them to see past that, and most aren’t even interested in seeing any deeper. Whether enthralled or jealous they are arrested there.” “As a result, you yourself have no sounding board to know whether your ideas are received with enthusiasm because they are good, or because some guy thinks he has a better chance of getting into your pants by praising ...
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