I made a video today of me reading a favorite book of my eldest daughter. She is in her forties and I am giving her the copy of the book that I have had all of these years. I decided I wanted to record myself reading it one last time just in case one of the grandchildren would like to hear it. It was not a comfortable experience trying to record, read and turn the pages. When I watched it the video itself was not too bad but my voice is awful. I have never liked the sound of my own voice even when I was younger. When I was younger if I heard a recorded version of my voice it always seemed unrecognizable. Too high pitched and not what I thought I sounded like. Now that I am older my voice sounds gravelly even to my own ears when I am speaking. The recorded version of my voice amplifies that gravelly sound to me. It is not pretty but I need to accept that it is me and is probably what everyone is used to.
