Do domething shocking...
You know, you havn't really lived untill you have wandered around a perfectly normal town in a mideval costume. It's been awhile. I always forget what it is like to not look normal when I have been dressing semi-normal for awhile. Thank god it was too hot to wear my cloak today.
I will go out wearing something "shocking", perhaps even "unacceptable" and for the life of me I can't understand why people are staring at me or giving me dirty looks today. Ohh...right, the mideval costume (or my fav, my big black pentacle shirt, that always gets some nice looks, and damn it is so comfortable)
I really highly sugest everyone do this. Go out wearing some type of outrageous costume. Dosn't have to be mideval, you could go with Victorian period peice, you know bustle and all. Go out in the middle of the day and go shopping for groceries. Or go to the tax office. It really gives one perspective. I find myself getting quite hostile feeling when I wear my costume for long enough. People giving you dirty looks, or the avoidant looks.
"WHAT!!!! You got a PROBLEM with me or something????"
Gosh, no wonder I was angry as a teenager.
Makes me realize why aninmity is nice once in awhile, and why I do wear semi-normal clothes most of the time in public these days (I make no comment on what I wear at home)...
posted by Brie @ 7:14 pm
1 Comments:
one of the interesting things about getting older is that it becomes easier and easier to do something shocking . . . one would think that it might be the other way around, but indeed I find that we seem to give more latitude to the young. I have learned that much offends . . . the length of my hair (supposed to cut it all off on the threshold of 40), short skirts (wrong no matter the state of one's legs), younger men (simply misguided), swearing - since no lady does that ('cause of course, age atomatically confers politeness in act and language) . . . ripped or patched jeans (must be a homeless person) . . .
kinda interesting really. Unexpected. I had always thought that one's freedom would increase with time, but instead it seems that free behaviour only creates more of a threat for the rest of the world.
So rock on with the medieval garb . . . it only gets more interesting!
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