My dad says I am enormously gorgeous. I wonder if I really am.
To be enormously gorgeous... Sarah says you need to have beautiful long, curly hair like she has.
I don't.
To be enormously gorgeous... Justin says you must have perfectly straight white teeth like he has.
I don't.
To be enormously gorgeous... Jessica says you can't have any of those little brown dots on your face called freckles.
I do.
To be enormously gorgeous... Mark says you have to be the smartest kid in the seventh-grade class.
I'm not.
To be enormously gorgeous... Stephen says you have to be able to tell the funniest jokes in the school.
I don't.
To be enormously gorgeous... Lauren says you need to live in the nicest neighborhood in town and in the prettiest house.
I don't.
To be enormously gorgeous... Matthew says you can only wear the coolest clothes and the most popular shoes.
I don't.
To be enormously gorgeous... Samantha says you need to come from a perfect family.
I don't.
But every night at bedtime my dad gives me a big hug and says, "You are enormously gorgeous, and I love you."
My dad must know something my friends don't.
Source: Carla O'Brien "Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul" Editors: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen and Irene Dunlap
Applications: beauty, self-image, self-esteem, self-worth