Self-image

I speak weekly over the phone with several people from different states around the country, offering them support and advice.  Most of the people I talk to have self-image difficulties, as do I.  During many of those calls in the last few weeks I have found myself saying things like “you are far better than you think you are”.  I also hear my internal voice asking “are you listening, Charlie?”, meaning I need to listen to the same advice.  Listening not in a prideful, egocentric way but in a humble, “lack of pretense” way.  In the words of Joan Baez “I am less than this song I am singing, I am more than I thought I could be”.