I had a friend who I got to know at work. She was one of the nicest people I have ever known. She bent over backwards to help you out, but the problem was that she tried helping too hard and became upset if she didn’t feel as though you appreciated it enough. However, that wasn’t the real problem. She loved to lie. It was a habit that she didn’t know how to break.

This story is about my former friend and we will call her Darcy. She was shaped like an egg (this is how her best friend described her) with two sticks for arms and legs. She also had a double chin. On top of this she was losing her hair and it was finely thin. You could see her scalp through the strands of her hair. Most of the time she would try to wear a hat. Darcy’s choice of clothing is another matter.

Her eyes were extremely small and beady and a large round face full of fat. The sad thing is I know how hard she tried to lose weight. We would go exercise and try to eat right but then she somehow would gain weight rather than lose it. Despite all of this, I would encourage her to talk to men. I had a lot of guys who would try to talk to me, but they didn’t talk to Darcy. I still didn’t understand that there was any problem. I would continue to ask her to wait for me somewhere so I could have some private time with different men that wanted to talk to me. She was upset with this.

When I did ask Darcy to join me when I would spend time with a guy she would spend the time huffing and puffing. When I would ask her to wait around or go find something to do then she would get upset and make it known she wasn’t happy with the situation. Then when the guy would ask to get rid of her then I thought they were rude and didn’t continue to talk with them.

Some time passed when I decided to introduce her to a friend of mine that was looking for a girlfriend. Since Darcy wasn’t with anyone I thought she would at least talk with him and see what would happen. Well, the guy saw her, said a few words, and then left. He later told me that he was upset since she was so ugly. I didn’t see her that way. Besides I feel as though beauty is an opinion and everyone is different.

Darcy and I went on vacation and I met another guy. He asked me to get rid of her because he had no friends who would go out with her since she wasn’t attractive. I couldn’t ditch her so I told him maybe we could go out another time. I didn’t understand what was going on since this was another man that told me how ugly she was.

About a year later after I got fed up with all of the lies she was telling me I began to see her as ugly. She was never ugly to me before because of her personality. As she continued to change for the worse I began to not like her anymore. Today, I am no longer friends with her simply due to the fact that she lied about everything. Yet, I don’t think anyone had the right to say she was ugly especially since they didn’t really know her. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.