Comfortable in your skin. Does it exist?

dd972

How are some people like this or are they bluffing, don't they have a head full of irrational fears, neuroses, imagined situations and conversations and second guessing?

coleen

I have always been happy in my own skin. I have a positive outlook and while I do not have all that I like I know that I am luckier than others.
Mindset is very important. So not everyone bluffing but even if you do it will help you to change your mindset to a positive outlook.

Junkyard Tom

It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

endacl

I tried other people's skins on. Didn't fit.

Went back to me own. Fits like a glove.

LordSutch

Apart from the odd freckle Im quite happy in my own skin thank you ...

The_Valeyard

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

With a load of kids in the wax museum recently. Not one of them got that reference. Very disappointed with their film choices.

mad muffin

I'm more comfortable in other people's skin…





It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again

Mister Vain

I'm comfortable in my skin after working out. I have to do it regularly though or I'll feel crap.

Loveinapril

I think being comfortable in your own skin is about being realistic and appreciating who you are/ what you have.

I'm comfortable in my skin, but I do run and swim and generally stay fairly fit. I also accept the things I can't change and get on with life.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's the only skin you're going to have, so you may as well make the most of it.

I'm very happy in my own skin. Always was. Brooding and fretting achieves nothing.

Estrellita

I think a lot of people are taking the op to mean body confidence. I'm sure the question covers it of course, but there is a broader interpretation to it.

I'm not comfortable in my own skin, unless I'm at home or in my garden. It's a place that makes sense to me, with the people I love and trust around me. When I'm out in public I feel out of sorts and stressed and have a strong urge to get away from people. I can't stand people invading my space while I'm trying to look at something in a shop. Driving stresses me out no end, because quite a lot of people are absolute w@nkers on the road.

I honestly can't wait to get home most of the time. I feel happy, calm and safe when I put the key in my front door and lock it behind me.

Garrett81

I spent most of my life not enjoying a single moment in my own skin, craving and wanting to be like others and it was emotionally very painful. But this painful experience of desiring to be like someone else "woke me up" to the fact I'm as just as good as anyone else. When I dropped my desires to be like others I found myself, it comes from within!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Estrellita wrote: »

I think a lot of people are taking the op to mean body confidence. I'm sure the question covers it of course, but there is a broader interpretation to it.

I'm not comfortable in my own skin, unless I'm at home or in my garden. It's a place that makes sense to me, with the people I love and trust around me. When I'm out in public I feel out of sorts and stressed and have a strong urge to get away from people. I can't stand people invading my space while I'm trying to look at something in a shop. Driving stresses me out no end, because quite a lot of people are absolute w@nkers on the road.

I honestly can't wait to get home most of the time. I feel happy, calm and safe when I put the key in my front door and lock it behind me.

Yeah, I get that. I don't like crowds and end up going somewhere very very early to avoid the crowds. I'm happiest in my own space and I don't really need constant communication with other people to feel normal.

It does drive the OH a bit crazy though. A week off work and she goes stir crazy from not being around people.

You should have a look at 'Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking' by Susan Cain, she talks a lot of sense.

Olishi4

My mam always said to me to be happy with what you have now because when you look back at photos of yourself 10 years later, youl think "what was I complaining about?"

Estrellita

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

It does drive the OH a bit crazy though. A week off work and she goes stir crazy from not being around people.

I do know people like that alright, and can understand it. She may have good relationships with her co-workers, and would miss their company.

Ive always severed contact or allowed it to fizzle out with co-workers because I never let it go beyond professional, or speak too much about my personal life. The more I think of it the more I understand my own Mother, I think Im on the same path.

You should have a look at 'Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking' by Susan Cain, she talks a lot of sense.

Thanks very much for that, Ill look it up

I think it certainly exists. For me, it comes and goes. Exercise helps. I think for me it is very much dependant on circumstances, e.g. is work going well, have I lost weight etc which is not that healthy maybe. It would be better if it was more sustainable, and internally rather than externally generated.

TSMGUY

Chavs seem pretty confident. Become a chav???