The Dress vs. The Sweats

This one needs a bit of a preamble. We were instructed to take two crayons - one we liked and one we didn't- and draw two characters and write about them. I drew two women. One on the right wearing a beautiful pink flowy dress with her eyes bright and a smile on her face. On the left I drew a similar girl in green sweats with eyes closed and a pout. And so the story goes...




She is the same character. It is simply her outfit that changes her. On the right she is confident and beautiful. Pretty most would say - and she knows it! Her dress flows and her thoughts don't move as fast as a bullet train. She is happy and brings smiles to those in her proximity. She has a fun-loving, carefree attitude and people love her.
But the left.
The left is all she has been lately. The same as the right, but with the smile faded and eyes closed. Baggy clothes, no confidence, no cheery disposition. Negative thoughts cram her mind and nothing will keep them from spinning. No effort. She has forgotten to be beautiful and the dress from the right feels uncomfortable. Not because it is too tight (which it is), but because its' beauty feels wrong on the same body, as long as the inner thoughts tell her so.
Oh to be the right side. But alas, it just doesn't feel right any more...