I get insidiously possessive with people and feelings of inadequacy don't lend me any favors when another client in the waiting room, or leaving the office, is prettier than I [perceive] myself to be. on one such occasion (a year ago when I was just a therapy tadpole) me and another girl had been double-booked on so in she walked with her dog while I was sitting there. t came out to retrieve me and realized her error and greeted the dog by name before seeing this other girl off but I imagine my face looked similar to this because it was such a critical hit to my shimmering therapy honeymoon innocence