What do you dislike about yourself?

[user 139760]

Okay, let's see...
Ugly, previously broken nose, false teeth, small jawline, small hands, crooked back, hurting joints and fingers (I have arthrosis, not severe at all, but as I get older it will be, I just ignore it), flabby, bit bulging stomach, especially on the sides (loves handles...), short height, weak knees, chubby legs, receiding hairline, ugly feet, graying hair and body hair. That's just the physical.

As for mental, as quick as I am mentally, it's not constant and it slows down with age, my occasional lack of confidence, my sometimes cowardice, my still at times pride or ego, which I try to eliminate, my lack of patience, my lack of caring, my lack of understanding, my inability to sympathize or empathize on some subject, my rare bouts of hostility or aggressiveness (on this forum at times as well), my lack of charm, my accidentally TOO present charm (it's like a double edged sword when I exactly DON'T want it), my indecisiveness, my isolationist tendencies...
That's just off the top of my head. I'm pretty sure I could fill 4 pages lol.

 

[Running Alone]

My face mostly. Ok, my body is on the scrawny side being a life long distance runner but I don't necessarily dislike that, I mean it could be better but heh, I'm 100% positive I'm extremely healthy as a result...so it's probably worth it. The thing that has always bugged me about my face is, my parents were great looking as youngsters!! WTF?!! Even today! They've both aged well and still look great IMO, but man, the pics I see of them from their 20's, well, I just don't know what the hell happened to me? It's not fair lol. My sister is striking....so I should've been slick looking too...but it simply didn't work out that way. Nature is so random I guess (and cruel sometimes).

 

[okidoke]

My face mostly. Ok, my body is on the scrawny side being a life long distance runner but I don't necessarily dislike that, I mean it could be better but heh, I'm 100% positive I'm extremely healthy as a result...so it's probably worth it. The thing that has always bugged me about my face is, my parents were great looking as youngsters!! WTF?!! Even today! They've both aged well and still look great IMO, but man, the pics I see of them from their 20's, well, I just don't know what the hell happened to me? It's not fair lol. My sister is striking....so I should've been slick looking too...but it simply didn't work out that way. Nature is so random I guess (and cruel sometimes).

Do you find that you get colds and flus often? I’ve known several very fit people who do long distance running and triathlons etc and they’re forever getting those sorts of ailments. I think it’s when you stress the body too much.

As for your face, genes can be finicky like that. If you check your family tree you might find someone you resemble.

 

[4No1]

Face, body, voice, emotional instability, problems with my memory, lack of intelligence, lack of sensitivity and loyalty, lack of socialisation, rudness and anger, laziness, weakness, inertness, aging. Almost everything. So it's not a wonder, that sometimes I want to hit myself in the face, can't stand watching myself in the mirrors.

 

[Unsigned]

Heavy drinking, depression, and how those things are starting to make me lazy as I get older.

 

[Abstamyous]

Heavy drinking, depression, and how those things are starting to make me lazy as I get older.

I'd guess it's not laziness, it's your body wearing down.

 

[Unsigned]

I'd guess it's not laziness, it's your body wearing down.

It's more my mind that's taking the brunt of it.

 

[Running Alone]

Do you find that you get colds and flus often? I’ve known several very fit people who do long distance running and triathlons etc and they’re forever getting those sorts of ailments. I think it’s when you stress the body too much.

Sorry I missed this earlier....nope, not me, it's actually the opposite, I NEVER get sick, its been decades honestly, not exaggerating, I rarely even get a head cold and I haven't had a real fever/flu since I was a teen. I once read a study about people who do intense cardio year round, their immune systems gets beefed up a lot, it mentioned this little chemical in our body that helps the immune systems work, it supposedly produces at roughly 3x the rate of a sedentary person. Now there is this thing where in the first few days after a marathon or similar event your body is susceptible to colds, etc, because after all, you're breaking it down when pushing it that hard - but for many of us, it's more of a simple case of feeling "run down" and fatigued for a couple weeks, not truly ill.

 

[Claudia1794]

Depends on my mood really.

 

[CenotaphGirl]

I dislike that I cant stop grieving over my father no matter how hard I try I feel like im letting him down… still crying over him, still wishing I could just talk to him. One phone call… I wish I was stronger

 

[SomeGuyOnTheInternet]

I hate my stubbornness. I should give up once and for all and leave this planet. But I'm still here, suffering for absolutely nothing.

 

[okidoke]

I hate my stubbornness. I should give up once and for all and leave this planet. But I'm still here, suffering for absolutely nothing.

well, you should suffer for a reason. get some reasons. life is all about learning and coping with suffering.

 

[SomeGuyOnTheInternet]

I'm aware of that. I had plenty of reasons in the past. Now it's only stubbornness that remains which is based on pure survival instinct. I'm only delaying the inevitable, for nothing. I don't have anything left to give, there is no higher goal anymore. I'm just a parasite.

 

[yohannbiimu]

I can't beat up anyone I want

That's something you "dislike about yourself"? Who's able to do this sort of thing other than crime bosses or despots?

 

[Cherubino]

That's something you "dislike about yourself"? Who's able to do this sort of thing other than crime bosses or despots?

vigilantes

 

[yohannbiimu]

vigilantes

So you hate yourself for not being able to rescind all laws regarding protecting others from assault and battery?

 

[Cherubino]

So you hate yourself for not being able to rescind all laws regarding protecting others from assault and battery?

just like in First Blood (Rambo 1)

 

[ardour]

Everything. But I'd say the worst would be how I still resemble a man who brutally abused small children. Whenever I catch my reflection, in that millisecond before I recognize myself, I see him.

 

[okidoke]

Everything. But I'd say the worst would be how I still resemble a man who brutally abused small children. Whenever I catch my reflection, in that millisecond before I recognize myself, I see him.

just to clarify, you literally mean you resemble a different man and not a former version of yourself, right?

 

[ardour]

just to clarify, you literally mean you resemble a different man and not a former version of yourself, right?

Yea, my father