My co-worker’s a bit obsession compulsive. She’s pretty young, about 10 years younger than me..ugh. She’s the one that I went shopping with in Chicago. The one I almost killed cause I couldn’t eat. Ok, I digress, so yeah, she’s funny with the obsessive compulsive thing she has.
When I first met her my impression was that she was very much into her looks. As I got to know her, she’s very nice and funny (even though she’s a crazy shopper), I realized she’s very insecure. I find a lot of times that people who are vain are normally very insecure about themselves. When I was shopping with her in Chicago, I noticed that when we passed a mirror, she would stop, fuss with her hair, look at herself and then carry on. No word of a lie, she did that every time we passed a mirror. I think it was compounded by the fact that she had this tiny blemish on her chin, tiny, that she pointed out to me that she thought made her skin look terrible. Trust me, it didn’t, she made it worse by constantly touching it cause she was so self-conscious about it.
Among her other obsessions is her hair. She has beautiful hair, she’s a beautiful girl, but she thinks her hair is starting to thin out. I think she’s crazy and I told her so. This is how crazy she is, she told me yesterday at lunch that she used bottled water, yes, bottled water to wash her hair that morning. She’s very certain that Toronto’s water is ruining her hair. Hm…a little nutty? I think so.
After she told me this I was a bit concerned, it didn’t seem so amusing anymore. So, I asked her where all this anxiety over her hair stemmed from and apparently her mother gives her a hard time about it. Isn’t that terrible? Why do parents do that to their children? Make them self-conscious about themselves? If you saw this girl, she’s gorgeous, so its hard to understand why anyone would make her feel less than that.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful or put together you are, its so true that we all have our insecurities. It’s too bad that for some people it becomes an obsession.
