I did it! I finally wore the suspenders i bought about 2 years ago! Now, one wouldn't think that wearing suspenders is a big issue, especially in comparison to skinny dipping but you don't know the whole picture.
I had the unfortunate timing of being in elementary school when the show Family Matters was popular. Family Matters might not mean much to you but the name "Steve Erkle" may ring a bell. Being skinny and nerdy like, it was an easy comparison, taunt, constant reference. To strangers, i was Steve Erkle. To children on the bus, to adults in the grocery store, "did i do that?" was requested.
15 years later, I was still unsure of wearing suspenders, lest i bring back the horrible name calling from childhood...good thing i have "make fun of me" tattooed onto my forehead!
A couple of weeks before i decided to wear the suspenders a co-worker thought it would be funny to call me Steve erkle. This has now developed into full out playground flashback, with sometimes, NO LIE, 5 people laughing at me saying, "did i do that" in the YMCA lobby! And I hadn't even put on the suspenders yet! All this time i was afraid people would make fun of me...and they do it anyways!
All that to say, its sad how i let things like people laughing at me stop me from trying out new things, like wearing suspenders. I hope i get better at doing things i like because i like them and not what everyone else thinks or will say. Wasn't i supposed to work through those issues in high school? Amazing...at 29 i still am working that this!
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You're AWESOME! Don't let anything that anyone says to the contrary have you forget that. You are unique, inspiring, fun and fabulous, and you have so many people who think the world of you (with good reason!). You could never be Erkel, because you're much too busy being Eddie - father, partner, son, and friend to so many of us.
ReplyDeleteDo what you feel like, and let the world say what they will!
Love,
Jessica
Not much I can add to the previous comment. Looks like pretty good advice to me.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I can add is that High School is over. If you like wearing suspenders then you get to wear them. You will find though, from experience that if you wear more than 3 times in a row you'll start getting comments like "no suspenders today, Eddie?" or "Where are your suspenders?".
:)
Ken