Monday 12 April 2021

How people see you

My left ear, the right one looks much the same,
apart from being on the other side of my head...
When I was about 13 and had never even had a single thought in my head about my ears, I was told they looked like cauliflower ears by a class mate (the same one that would scream if she saw the teensiest spider crawling on her desk, like a really miniscule harmless spider). I wondered what she meant by that and when I looked in the mirror, I still didn't really understand. My ears didn't look anything like cauliflowers. 

I still don't think much about my ears and still don't think they look like cauliflowers.

Blue!
When I was about 19 I was told by a colleague that I had beautiful grey eyes. The fact he said they were beautiful was fantastic. The grey part not so much, as my eyes are very much blue. Perhaps not navy blue or periwinkle blue, but they are blue nonetheless.

A few years ago I kept hearing (nobody ever said it directly to my face) that I was fat. Well, this I knew to be a downright lie, as I was proportionally overweight. In the end though, I had to concede the fact that actually proportionally overweight is only a nice way of telling yourself that you are in fact FAT. Those whispers behind my back were true. I am now working on losing the fat by eating less and moving more.

Light blonde, but I was only 5 at the time.
Then recently a friend told me that my hair was brown and that I did not have any grey. When I told my mum about that blatant untruth, she said that in fact, my hair was brown (no mention of the grey). No no no no! I have never had brown hair, so the first time this year I could make it to the hairdresser my most important question was: what is the colour of my hair?

She put me at ease: my hair is very much not brown. It's middle to dark blonde (which I thought) and some of the grey is starting to show, but only slightly as my hair is middle to dark blonde and NOT brown!

It was dyed...
And as for my name! Anybody will recognise it. Being called something you most certainly aren't called and wondering do I look like a Tamara or Barbara or even Gabrielle? And yes, people have called me those names over the years. 

So, if you ever meet me: I am a dark blonde (with grey starting to show slightly), blue eyed, still overweight but working on it, normal eared woman called Mara. 

9 comments:

  1. Well, that was interesting. I guess we call Sue's eyes green, but they are a bit hard to pin down.

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  2. You are beautiful just the way you are, Mara! I think the kid who said that about your ears must have heard the term somewhere and said it just to be mean. Usually people with cauliflower ears are wrestlers who get hit in the head a lot.

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  3. Hari Om
    Yeah, cauliflower ear is a particular result of sporting injury. Kids can be nasty, can't they? Mind you, so can adults, even when not knowing it - like calling us not by our names!!! Well done for laying the mat out - we are duly informed &*> YAM xx

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    1. You are welcome! Mind you, the thing that bugged me most was the brown hair! By people who are supposed to know you like Mum...

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  4. Your smile lights up your whole face which says a lot more about you than any description.

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    1. Thank you. Although lately the smile has faded somewhat. This Corona pandemic is really starting to hit home now.

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  5. My kids are often told that they're not "real" blonds. They keep a photo handy of all four of them together when they were all very young, and they are definitely little towheads!

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  6. Mara you are made up of sugar and spice and everything nice!
    Hugs Cecilia

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  7. Nice to meet you! Glad you have answers to your questions.

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