SSS [Strategic Sincere Serenade]

It's funny.  Even though I live in a house of males, I've experienced so many of the frustrations and difficulties that men tend to have with women throughout my interactions with them--irrational thought processes, emotional/mental instabilities, pessimism, insecurities, self esteem issues, just straight up fucking crazy, etc.--it's made me realize that the root to most, if not all, of these issues is due to fixation on past scars.  Inadvertently, helping them through their problems have helped me through my own--not in fixing them, because what's happened has already happened, but in changing the way how I feel about them.  It's not that I've become a happier person necessarily, just a lot less negative and more reasonable.  Being jaded and bitter really isn't progressive in the overall scheme of things.  Forgive and grow on.  Smile.  Remember the good things, hold on to them.  Appreciate what you have and what you had--and build off of that.  We have so much time.  Everything will be ok, really. If you have that mentality, you'll work toward it, and then surely it will be.  So life? Sorted. It's all good.                

Last night, L and I had an hour of pep talk with Iz about how he's not fat and ugly.  I don't know why he thinks that of himself since he has the whole tall, dark, and handsome thing going on for him, but I guess it's hard to shake the old insecurities of someone who used to be overweight.  Anyway, it wasn't working.  No amount of sincere compliments from either of us could lighten his mood.  So, as a last attempt to help him feel beautiful, I belted out:

You're insecure,
Don't know what for,
You're turning heads when you walk through the door,
Don't need make-up,
To cover up,
Being the way that you are is enough

Everyone else in the room can see it,

Everyone else but youu~

L happened to have his guitar out and he happened to know the chords, so he strummed along and joined in.  It was all very...Kumbaya.

But when Iz's face broke out into a smile, we knew we did alright. 

Off-key singing can do that to a person.