Wear
Your Point
Humans
can easily be labelled as the most diverse of all species, but, different as we
may be, all of us share the belief that there is a certain bar which we need to
reach in our lives if we are to deem them as “well lived”. Having the dream is
one thing and having the resistance to achieve it in the raging winds of
negativity is another. The human race has been tussling with negativity since
time immemorial and one thing that has stood out the most in the war against
naysayers is expression. The ability to reimburse the value of your dream as your
peers and, frankly, even the people you do not know try to diminish the worth
of your goal so that you think it is not worth fighting for.
If
it were as easy to stand up to people and utter the exact words that blast
through the weak walls of our minds, we would all be better suited for fighting
criticism, but, due to differences in people, not everyone has the will to
raise a voice. Fortunately, expression is a broad term hence it is possible to
air your views without even saying anything. One aspect that always gives me
the first general idea about any person I see is the way they dress. We may
sing the gospel of “Don’t judge a book by its cover” for eternity, but,
ultimately, people need to have an impression about you. We may not be able to
change the fact that people are always trying to make a conclusion about us,
but we can change their conclusion by simply wearing the message that we want
to send to them.
Recently,
a 17 year old Houston boy wore a shirt with the message:
“Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or
transphobic when you could just be quiet”
https://twitter.com/lustdad/status/817361046616809473/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fstephaniemcneal%2Fgolden-rule
He
posted pictures of himself wearing the shirt on Twitter and the posts have
already generated over 80000 retweets. Whoever that young lad was sending a
message to, there is an 80000 to 1 chance that they got it.
Obviously,
racism, sexism aren’t the only matters requiring people to voice out their
views. Sometimes it’s simply an issue of “Identity Crisis”. It may be that you
can’t seem to find a group you belong to.
People fail to realise that were are not meant to fit in, but to simply
be different as it is what sets us aside from other species and wearing a
t-shirt that says “I AM WHO I AM” might just be the motivation that you need.
The
bottom-line is, whatever massage you plan on sending across, make sure that
your clothes are saying the same thing.
