[voiceover] The worst feeling is suddenly realizing that you don't measure up, and that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool.
“The Zit” · Season 1, Episode 5
In this episode: Angela Chase (5), Patty Chase (1), Sharon Cherski (1)
[voiceover] It had become the focus of everything. It was all I could feel, all I could think about. It blotted out the rest of my face, the rest of my life. Like the zit had become...the truth about me.
I would think that you would welcome the opportunity to dress up, to look your best.
Who am I looking my best for?
For you! Of course this is for you! I mean, I don't...
Mom, just face the facts, okay?
What facts, what?
That I'm ugly, okay? Just face it -- I have.
How can you say that-- how can you possibly --
By looking in the mirror, okay? By looking at you, with the way you look at me.
How do I look at you?
By the way you instruct me on how to wash my face so I don't get zits. Like you have to fix me, like you're ashamed of me.
Oh, no -- Angela, sweetheart, no!
You expect me to beautiful, because you're beautiful. Well, I'm sorry -- I'm not. I'm just not.
Why do girls have to tear each other down?
I guess 'cause they're jealous. I mean, I was. Of you. For having what you have.
Do you know how many times this week I wished I had what you had?
But I don't have anything!
Exactly.
Well, this really makes sense.
I guess it just all boils down to what they used to drill into us at Girl Scouts.
What, sell more cookies?
No! No, you know -- um...'What you are is' -- no, wait: 'What your gift is --'
Oh! No: 'What you have is God's gift to you, and what you do with what you have is your gift to God.'
[voiceover] Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while, and admit the truth -- that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually...beautiful. Possibly even me.
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