It's great that you're pretty inside your own head! But kind of weird to me that your friends wouldn't see it -- the thing you said about your friends being beautiful, I feel that too.

We don't have any photos of our mom in middle age -- years and years with like two photos a year -- because she doesn't like the way she looks in photos. :-/ I hope the girls and young women taking selfies now keep doing it as they age.

Also, belated congratulations on the job change. I knew you were looking but didn't know you'd found a new job.