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I Don’t Feel Like I Have Any Strengths

Deborah Kristina
2 min readOct 12, 2022

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I have a hard time moving in this world because I don’t feel like I have any strengths.

I have nothing to offer anyone.

No one is excited to work with me.

I have found that no one feels compelled to speak to me and I suspect that it’s because I don’t cheerfully present myself to the world.

I have been broken up to the time that I remember myself.

I haven’t healed.

Because of how long I have felt the way I do, I’m convinced that there is probably no such thing as healing for some people.

When I meet people, I get the impression that they are disappointed to see what I look like. Right away, I feel that people are disappointed by how I carry myself.

Tears tend to spill when I know that I haven’t hit it off with someone. I feel that people criticize me somehow by how they speak to me.

I don’t know what to say.

I don’t know how my face looks to people.

I always get a frown.

I always feel a reluctance from people to approach me.

I have nothing to say but the saddest things.

I feel like crying several times a day; the tears come out in the morning and…

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Deborah Kristina
Deborah Kristina

Written by Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)

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