I had to submit a "professional-looking" photo to WGU for my student teaching portfolio. Aren't photographs humbling? I never thought of myself as particularly beautiful, in the words of a high school classmate "You're no beauty queen, Cheri". (Why do these things stay with us? It's been almost a decade since high school.)
Surprisingly, I have learned to accept some of my non-beauty-queen attributes. I don't think it's because they "add character" as the phrase goes, but because of a semi-defeatist acceptance of some of my awkward features.
Awkward feature #1: My eyes are each a different shape and size. My left eye is larger and rounder. My right eye is smaller and more almond-shaped. Freaky, I know, but not that uncommon. An online search came up with this article: Two Eyes, Two Sizes.
Awkward Feature #2: This one only sort of counts, because it is a recent development and is fixable. My teeth have continued to push forward in the last five years and my left front tooth is starting to angle forward. I call it my scraggle-tooth. It doesn't help that I missed putting lipstick on half my bottom lip for this picture. Clearly not beauty queen behavior. I also have a funny drooping gum-line on one side that has to be cut back by an oral surgeon ever five years or so.
Could be much, much worse. So, I will accept that I am a crazy-eyed, scraggle-toothed non-beauty-queen. Does that make me an ogre?
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