Emma1017 ... Which hurts less - Volume Two

[Lori Dee ✅]

Now she wants to do an Emma in Manhattan follow up from our last outing. She is an evil influence.

Do it!

Eventually, you will graduate to YouTube channels, a best-selling book, and a movie!

You go, girl!

[Emma1017]

 
I don't know if I ever shared these photos of "Emma in London" from last year.  .  It would have been before the server crashed.  Sorry if it's a rerun.


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Or the one from the Queen Mary 2:

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Sorry, I couldn't make the photos smaller.

[Dances With Trees]

Thanks, Emma! You are so beautiful and your smile lit up my entire home!
I look forward to Emma in Manhattan.

I also reread the Ka story and the perceptive and elegant dialog that followed. And I agree with virtually everything everyone offered in reply. At the risk of seeming contrarian, I humbly add something one of my professors was wont to say at every opportunity: Free will is the feeling one has while conforming to the dictates of necessity.

I don't ascribe to that viewpoint without condition but, based on the life I've lived, and I've lived a long time, I do believe Destiny (capitalized on purpose) guides a significant part of my journey.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Great pics, Emma!

Thanks for bringing them back!

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Gorgeous pictures. You look lovely.

C😻

[Sephirah]

You didn't, Emma.

Your knockout smile says anything you ever need to know about your pictures.

[davina61]

I had to duck to stop that smile hitting me in the face!!!

[Emma1017]

Thank you all for the nice compliments!  They mean a lot.

I hope no one thinks I am a narcissist for posting so many photos on this blog. I am massively insecure about being transgender all the time. I need the photos to fight back against the massive lack of self-confidence that I have.  Each photo is a celebration of me conquering those fears, and those fears are always with me.

[Lori Dee ✅]

I hope no one thinks I am a narcissist for posting so many photos on this blog. I am massively insecure about being transgender all the time. I need the photos to fight back against the massive lack of self-confidence that I have.  Each photo is a celebration of me conquering those fears, and those fears are always with me.

And you are showing others who might feel insecure that it is perfectly fine to just be yourself. Keep posting and smiling for the world, Emma!

[Pema]

Emma, I don't for a moment think of you as a narcissist. Not even close. I feel your joy, and I appreciate you sharing it.

[Stottie Girl]

Hell no, you're not a narcissist. I take selfies all the time, I think it helps my self image massively.

I can't bear to have my pic taken in boy mode though, I hate it.

[Sephirah]

Thank you all for the nice compliments!  They mean a lot.

I hope no one thinks I am a narcissist for posting so many photos on this blog. I am massively insecure about being transgender all the time. I need the photos to fight back against the massive lack of self-confidence that I have.  Each photo is a celebration of me conquering those fears, and those fears are always with me.

A little bit of narcissism is a healthy thing, Emma. Kind of like sometimes it's okay to be selfish. It can feel like sometimes you spend your life being at the bottom of the list of people you should care about. And that can really damage you over time. So sometimes you have to just say "You know what? I am worth it."

I mean it doesn't hurt when you're gorgeous, you and Sarah both. If you've got it, flaunt it! But just in general... you need to remember that you are worth your time and effort as much as anyone else is. You need to be able to feel good about yourself in whatever small ways you can, whenever you can. Because how you are in the world all comes from inside you. You create the ripples in your pond and the impact of how you feel about yourself determines how those ripples will affect those around you.

*hugs*

[Emma1017]

Thank you all for having my back...again.  Sometimes the insecurities and self-criticisms well up, and they just hurt.  We all get those moments.  It's good to have friends who help beat back the transgender blues.😊

[Sephirah]

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

-Henri Nouwen