The guy in the movie Puncture buys this suit because it’s on
sale and is Armani…it doesn’t exactly look great and it definitely doesn’t fit
into his work environment. The girls in Sex and the City only wear designer
duds and some of their outfits are atrocities! Growing up, I begged my mom to
buy me Guess jeans, I didn’t care what they looked like, just so long as the
label said Guess. I got handed down a pair of denim overalls from one of my
older cousins and I remember wearing them proudly because they were Guess. Even
though they were boys and even though I looked absolutely hideous in them!
My mother-in-law was telling me about a guy she saw who was
pierced and tatted up, but he was the kindest, most gentle guy who helped her
with something. She said she had judged him wrong so quickly and learned a good
lesson.
Those labels we want really mean very little and may even
project the wrong image to others. But I guess who really cares what others
think? So long as we live right and are pleasing to God, His is the only
opinion that counts.
I was reading a MOPS publication recently and it was about a
mother taking her kid on a playdate and judged another mother for looking
stylish and having a big, clean house. She admitted that she missed out on that
mom’s friendship on looks alone. I think a little differently…I think that
those who are opposite of me- skinny, pretty women with big, clean houses (or
guys of any kind) are judging me and therefore won’t waste their time with my
friendship or company. So I was intimidated to ever even initiate a
conversation with them or even try to be their friend. Since we had kids in the
same class at school I ended up being friends with so many of that type of
person and it turns out, I don’t think they judged me because I was the
opposite of them. They treated me the same as they treated their friends who
were the same as them. How stupid was I!!
In the same way of thinking, I need to throw away the
perception of myself based on my label. And stop trying to label my family. I
have a tendency to label my oldest son as a kid with Rain Man tendencies
because he talks non-stop about useless information (useless to me) and can
quickly size up a room with burned out lightbulbs…and it just grates on my
nerves!! But a friend said to me that it wasn’t a bad quality, he just has
curiosity and his quirks just make him who he is. I have this internal label
that my daughter should be prim & proper, yet she is so messy that I get
mad at her for being so. She has always been messy and not purposely. At least
she knows that she is and always eats her dinner with a towel close by! So what
if she’s messy? Just teach her how to clean up after herself and never buy her
white clothes!!!
Believe me, I can be a label snob when it comes to lots of
things. And because of that I limit myself and miss out.
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