"O wad some Power the giftie gie us -To see oursels as ithers see us!"
True enough, but it doesn't much matter. We are who we are and life is a finite gift. What we do with that gift, while we have it, is the only real choice we have.
Given that so many of these correspondents seem to be in the mood to throw their lives away (and take us with them), their view of me is inconsequential.