apples and oranges
Have you ever eaten an orange, and thought, I wonder if oranges taste the same for everyone? Or if the “orange taste” to me is different from an orange taste for someone else. Is the color orange the same to everyone’s eyes? Perhaps the color blue, is orange to someone else. And the only real difference is the actual word. I don’t really think this is true.
But I like to think about it sometimes. Maybe I’ve been doing too much thinking lately. Most people who know me, know that I’m the kinda girl who just does stuff. (I try to think before I do….)
You know, I make dinner.
I exercise.
I clean.
I shop.
I sip coffee with friends.
I watch old movies.
I laugh with family.
I go for walks with the husband.
I do my homework.
But I hardly everrrrr think about myself. What I really feel, or who I really am. I know some people sit around thinking about themselves. And I have had friendships fizzle out because I couldn’t take the over analyzing any more. Or, they couldn’t take me not participating in it. But lately I’ve been thinking about myself. Who I am. And I decided I just can’t label myself. Really. (besides my profession) I change constantly. And I guess it’s true that God knows me better than I know myself.
Sometimes I wonder what the stranger sitting beside me thinks about me. First impressions. Looking at my outer shell. I’ve had friends say that when they first met me
they thought I was stuck up. This makes us laugh. I don’t care what people think about me, what their impression is of me, until they get to know me. Then, for better or worse,
their opinion becomes important to me, because if I let them get that close, then I must love them.
So it’s too much trouble to label yourself when people see the labels different ways, and more often than not, the label just doesn’t match what’s inside.
And now you know the story behind this layout. That’s what I was thinking this morning on my commute to school.
This is what happens when your car stereo is stolen.
I am sorry about your car stereo. I often think about who I am. I hate the labels that people put on us. They often label us from our outward appearance. My two sons get this labeling a lot due to their long hair. Yes, they are hippies but they are also good students and truly nice people. I think if I look deep in my heart I will see who I am and that is all that matters. Thanks for this thoughtful post.
Have a groovy week!
Love and God bless,
Shaun
i often wondered if i was the only one that thought about stuff like this…now i know i am not alone.
the lo is awesome but the thought behind it great.
I love that layout, Mandi.
And I totally get that “orange” thing.
You make me think.
my husband says he did his best thinking in his car, after his car stereo was stolen :)
maybe it’s a good thing that it was stolen…that’s what i always told him.
:)
i LOVE it. perhaps i should turn my radio off once in awhile.
I have constantly wondred if people see colors the way I do, but decided that they must because I’m thinking science would have figured that out by now…since scientists know that certain animals are colorblind.
I feel the same way about labels. I always feel weird when somebody’s blog intro reads a laundry list of labels. You know the ones…”wife. mother. sister. friend. blah blah blah”.
I strive every day to be more than those labels…even though I don’t realize it. I am trying to make my life and the lives of my children extroadinary, even if only in a small way.
love the layout.
and self-reflection is a wonderful thing!
ohhhh love this… sweet negative space ;) it’s funny how we feel a need to label ourselves, or at least society does. My boyfriend has given up asking what i’m ‘doing’ with all these bits of paper… creating and having a fine time :)
stunning.
you keep inspiring me all day.
thank you for that.
:)
Oh my gosh!! I am so a lurker but I had to say that I am the same way! I just do it… I don’t think about everything I am going to say and do- I am just me, I just do what I do! So cool to read someone else verbalize this. Sometimes I analyze but it is rare.
Bummer about the car stereo. :(
I do my best thinking in the shower because its the only quiet place in the house.
Both cars and showers are good for singing!
“So it’s too much trouble to label yourself
when people see the labels different ways,
and more often than not,
the label just doesn’t match what’s inside.”
Amen! to that sister!!!
i like this thinking thing that you do!
but i think i like everything that you do anyway…in a non-stalkerous way, of course! LOL!
love all of this. the whole dang post.
Love this layout! :)