I am STYLISH!

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"Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared."

~ Freya Stark

One of the great deceptions of our culture is that it embraces and encourages individuality.  If you look at the messages coming from the media and the billions of commercials we are bombarded with day in and day out, it won't take you long to realize that we constantly reminded to be like everyone else.  We should all buy this brand or that brand to look cool.  We should all drive this car.  Sure there are hundreds of companies, but the message is the same.

Steph and I were talking the other day and it occurred to me that the path to cheerful acceptance is counter-culture.  Cheerful acceptance means giving up on worrying about how you are perceived by others and accepting all of the things that are you...your uniqueness...or as Freya Stark implies in her quote, your own style.  If style is peculiar to one person, doesn't that imply that when were are Cheerfully Accepting who we are and living in to that acceptance that we are, in fact, being "stylish."  If we are truly going to be a culture of individuality and uniqueness, then its starts from inside...we have accept and be unique.  Does it really matter that you are wearing an Armani suit and a Rolex, driving a BMW if you go through each day afraid of the dark places in your own life?  I would suggest that those "culturally stylistic trappings" are simply a method for hiding our own insecurities.

Step out into the light!  Be yourself!  Cheerfully Accept yourself!  If the real you likes to wear Armani suits...then so be it....but do it because it is you, not because everyone else thinks that Armani suits are cool!  Have a GREAT day!