Different Hats

Hats is the prompt we were given today. I believe that the interpretation of that is something simple. Different hats. We constantly are wearing different hats that change on our circumstances. Our location and people we are around change our personality to fit with what that setting is. In 9th grade there was this girl who all of her friends hated her because around boys they said she changed. I always found that odd? Of course she changed. She was flirting and trying to be attractive instead of talking to her girls. I would hope she's not flirty with her girlfriends.

Robert Greene once stated "Alter your style and language according to the person you are dealing with. The pseudo-belief in equality, the idea that talking and acting the same way with everyone, no matter what their rank, makes you somehow a paragon of civilization is a terrible mistake. Those beneath will take it as a form of condescension, which it is, those above you will be offended, although they will never admit it."

To be the same with everyone is stupid. You're not that way. No one is. Someone who says they have the same thoughts and actions no matter there location is a liar. Ask yourself this: would you speak the same way to your girlfriend/boyfriend as a parent? No you wouldn't. Acting crazy and dancing in your room on a Friday is completely acceptable but if that was done during a family dinner Sunday evening would be widely inappropriate.

I believe you shouldn't change who you are or your standards but it should change your state of mind. Also I believe in diversity of personality and interests. The smartest most interesting people I have yet to meet have been the ones with the most diverse interests and hobbies. To be centered on one thing doesn't allow you to see what the world has to offer. One shouldn't be centered around one thing that defines them such as athletics, an instrument or any after school activity.

What is the point of my writings today? To explain that having different sides of your personality is ok. That having a diverse personality and different interests is ok. Be defined my many things not one action or interest. Be adaptable to all circumstances.

Steven O. Jordan