When I was picking what I wanted to wear this morning, I was wearing my black jeans, so I knew that I wanted to pick something that would contrast against it, which mean that my dark shirts weren’t right for the moment. I ended up picking out this beige linen shirt that I’ve had for a long while. Yeah, since it’s old it’s a size or two larger. I was running late, so I made the decision to not iron it. To my eyes it didn’t look that horrible. I figured that if I tucked the shirt in properly it wouldn’t look that bad. Really, it didn’t at the time.
About midday, I stopped by the bathroom before heading out to pick up lunch. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and was kind of shocked at how sloppy I looked. The wrinkly nature of the linen shirt was more evident. The tucked-ness of the shirt was variable, which I should have expected. After all, it’s not like I was standing still. All of a sudden, I didn’t feel comfortable at all. After picking up lunch, I actually accidentally splattered a bit of gravy on the shirt. That was my cue. I actually went out to Queen St. W and went shopping for a few shirts. Time to replace a few things in my closet, right? Mexx had their whole stock on sale for half-price so I ended up getting a couple of shirts from there. As soon as I got back to office, I changed shirts and immediately I started feeling better about myself.
I’m only telling this story now because this seems to have become a common pattern for me. It’s not like I didn’t care about how I looked before, but it’s been ramped up over the past few months. There really is a lot of truth about looking good being correlated to feeling good. I’m doing so much to transform myself physically, that I might as well care about what I’m wearing too, right? It’s not like I’m becoming snobbish or obsessive, though details and fit should matter, right? If I buy correctly, both shouldn’t be an issue I have to be actively conscious about.
See. All of this came about just because of a wrinkly shirt and a bit of gravy. Geez, man.
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