I love this post about labels. They're so important! I'll give you an example. I'm short - 5'2" - but I have very long legs. As my sister puts it, my legs stop and my neck starts. I was always a fan of fitted jackets, but they never worked for me. It was like my hips were too big...but they weren't. I was very slender. I guess I needed to lose weight...in my hips?
One day I was looking in the mirror at a store, clearly disappointed. The saleslady looked at me, left and came back holding the same jacket. "Here," she said. "This is a petite. The regular size won't work for you - you're short waisted."
So...the problem wasn't me? The problem was the clothing manufacturer's? I just needed a different cut?
Mind blown doesn't even begin to cover it. After many, many years of figuring the problem was me, to find out it wasn't was, well, mind blowing!
We spend so much of our time blaming ourselves. Discovering that there is a reason for our behavior is profound and hard to wrap our minds around. To have that questioned is such a betrayal.
Yes, Amy! If clothes are only made to fit one type of body it's not surprising that anyone with a differently shaped body is going to think they're the problem. A variety of clothes made for a variety of bodies, with no one body being better or worse than the next, just makes sense. Same goes for brains. The quicker the world catches on to this the better!
I love this post about labels. They're so important! I'll give you an example. I'm short - 5'2" - but I have very long legs. As my sister puts it, my legs stop and my neck starts. I was always a fan of fitted jackets, but they never worked for me. It was like my hips were too big...but they weren't. I was very slender. I guess I needed to lose weight...in my hips?
One day I was looking in the mirror at a store, clearly disappointed. The saleslady looked at me, left and came back holding the same jacket. "Here," she said. "This is a petite. The regular size won't work for you - you're short waisted."
So...the problem wasn't me? The problem was the clothing manufacturer's? I just needed a different cut?
Mind blown doesn't even begin to cover it. After many, many years of figuring the problem was me, to find out it wasn't was, well, mind blowing!
We spend so much of our time blaming ourselves. Discovering that there is a reason for our behavior is profound and hard to wrap our minds around. To have that questioned is such a betrayal.
Yes, Amy! If clothes are only made to fit one type of body it's not surprising that anyone with a differently shaped body is going to think they're the problem. A variety of clothes made for a variety of bodies, with no one body being better or worse than the next, just makes sense. Same goes for brains. The quicker the world catches on to this the better!