Too often we put ourselves down. Too often we think we are useless, not good enough, less than perfect and thus less than acceptable. Too often we demur praise, or will not praise ourselves. Often we outright hate ourselves, and much of the dominant media and various cultures around us are determined to make us feel as bad as possible, usually so that we will buy things.
In the comments to this post, I cordially invite you to tell me why you are awesome.
Please do not phrase your awesomeness with self-deprecation, or sorrow that you are not awesome enough, or not awesome in the right way. This is a space in which to acknowledge your awesome without condition or qualification.
I encourage you also to respond to other awesome ladies on this thread, congratulating them on their awesome. Please do not do so with wistful self-putting-down disguised as compliments. Do not say, "I could never be as awesome as you are!" or "I only wish that I could one day do an awesome thing like you did." Cherish your awesome as you do theirs.
Here, I'll start off:
I am Karen Healey and I am awesome. Today I helped out friends who needed help with moving. I came home and made a cake with a fantastic rum-chocolate ganache. I then sat on the couch and read a book. I am very proud of my reading skills. They are excellent, and so am I.
You are awesome, ladies. Tell us all how.
*Ladies = all people who identify as a woman/lady/girl/female human type of any classification.
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I am late to meet some friends, but they will forgive me because they're awesome. And I deserve my awesome friends, for I am awesome too.
I am also awesome for pimping your book at everyone, because I really enjoyed it and think that it should be read by everyone on the planet because it is a GOOD STORY.
which is awesome.
the end.
Tonight I am finishing my last paper of this semester of school. It will be awesome, because I'm a great paper-writer. And then I'll be writing creatively, on a joint venture with my amazing best friend, because we are even awesomer when we work together.
I am awesome because I am shallow, vain, and judgmental, and don't think those are necessarily flaws. I am shallow in ways that let me enjoy being a girl, vain because I know I'm attractive (I am all for ladies reclaiming their vanity!), and judgmental of what you do, but not who you are. In addition to being shallow, vain, and judgmental, I am fiercely loyal to those I love, shy to give my heart but committed all the way once it's given.
I am awesome because through luck and sheer talent, I am finally in a career I love (editorial in a publishing house). I speak three languages fluently (Korean, English, Spanish) and can get by in a handful of others. I am intelligent and I know it. I am also arrogant but I don't think it's undeserved. I am the first to acknowledge where my skills are inadequate and am not afraid to ask for help.
And lastly, I am awesome because I am a jill-of-all-trades. I edit, I draw, I write, I sing and play piano/guitar, I make silly stopmotion animation videos for books I love, and best of all, I can read at the speed of light. (It comes in handy at my job.)
Also, I jump out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. :)
Thank you for commenting - it is often really hard to say that we are awesome, and it's fantastic that you did it!
Which, as we know, is awesome.
and also because i have realised that althoguh typing this way is frustratinglyu slow and diffcult people don't seem to miund putting up with all my typos while it's healing. that mjakes people pretty awesome too, i thjink.
I'm awesome because, like someone said above, I'm a Jill-of-all-trades. I'm a writer, editor, web designer, photographer, video editor, musician (I sing and play multiple instruments), and music producer. I'm also an extremely quick learner--I can do pretty much anything I put my mind to.
And...I'm awesome for having the guts to post the above instead of apologizing for it--which I do too often.
So easy to put ourselves down! So awesome to resist it!
The only thing that would make me and my life more awesome is if I wrote more. Therefore, I must do that!
Oh, and I am also awesome because I just resisted the urge to downplay my achievements.
Cheers to all the other awesome women posting here today!
Thanks for doing this, Karen. You are awesome! :)
I'm a pretty awesome cook, a baker, I make furniture, my favorite movie in the world is Star Wars and I like to sing Journey songs. Every guy I've gotten I've attracted with my sense of humor.
And so is everyone else here! I loved reading about how awesome everyone is, and think that this sort of thread should happen much more often than it does. Yay Karen Healey! I am still trying to find a way to buy your book without doing it online. I cannot find it in stores around here. :(
This month I finished my upcoming prose novel (which my editor signed off on), spent four days reviewing sketches for my upcoming graphic novel (illustrated by the awesome Ming Doyle), spoke at Houston Teen Book Fest and the Texas Library Association and at Pechanga tribal school in California, and I'm about to begin revising my keynote for SCBWI NE in Boston next month.
But today I'm most awesome because I'm pretty much taking off the whole weekend. I went to two of my friends book signings yesterday, out with a pal and her new honey last night, and now am going to just play on the Web for a while in my comfy blue chair.
And maybe take a nap, too.
And I'm awesome because I'm turning a short-short story into a short story for the Crossed Genres' Science in My Fiction contest!