That Girl
Before you get started, I ask that you please take time and watch the attached video below for a better understanding. Hopefully you have viewed the attached TikTok. This message that she shared mirrors how I feel daily. I always hear “you are so pretty”, “I cannot believe you are still single” or something along those lines, but my reality is if I am considered attractive I do not feel that way because how I am received by the opposite sex. From my days in college, I have always been that friend that sat at the table and watched purses, coats and drinks while everyone else was being asked to dance or being bought drinks. If a guy bought me drinks it was a sympathy drink because he was trying to entice the friend I was with. Now during my days at the NCO on Ft. McClellan, I had a dedicated dance partner. In the days of plus size women being glorified and oversexualized, often time we are not taken seriously. We are perceived to have low self-esteem and settling for whatever attent