For most of you dearies and me, it's Friday, and as most of you dearies and I know, I usually dress up on Fridays, while everyone else dresses down at our work. If you don't know that, and give one iota about following the gist of this post, you can read about that here http://pukkapurl.blogspot.com/2010/05/there-aint-nothing-casual-about-my.html
Actually, over the last two weeks, I have been wearing either a dress or skirt every day. One of my co-workers eventually asked, "So, are you EVER going to wear pants again?" I teasingly asked, "Why? Do you have something against dresses?" The truth was, I had been either too busy or too lazy to do my work wear washing. Thus, I had NO clean pants TO wear. But, I didn't feel the need to tell her that.
Today, another co-worker came by my office and said, "I'm pulling a YOU today." I said, "How's that?" She said, "I'm wearing a dress, and its Friday!" I "ooohed and ahhheed" over her casual slip of a cute dress (hey, it may have been casual, but at least it was a dress -- baby steps, it's all about the baby steps).
I never make any comment about their relaxed attire. In fact, I love it when they act like I am wearing an evening gown, when in reality, I'm simply wearing an everyday dress. (HA HA). I'm totally kidding. Even though they do act like that, I really don't put that much thought into dressing up. As most of you know, I only began dressing up on Fridays, because of a ridiculous sign my employers used to put out for all to read which I explained in the link posted above. After a while, my initial poke at their straight-laced nature became an easy breezy straight-laced habit of mine, which I actually don't mind, because I love playing dress up and feeling the essence of my God given GIRL POWER.
But, this post isn't really about clothes or dressing up, its about noticing when PEER PRESSURE is at play. From recent reactions, I'm guessing there is a certain amount of unintended peer pressure on display here. One co-worker seems to be trying to get me to conform to the general population, while another seems to be feeling the unintended influence of my dressy ways.
If you find yourself subjected to the push and pull of peer pressure, strive to be the PRESSURE. Unless of course, you are a bank robber, Hitler incarnated, or a total nub on a stump, because by God, the world is already teeming with slackers. I should know, I can sometimes be one of them (a slacker, not a natural born killer -- okay fine maybe I'm that too, but I don't kill any and every bug, only the ones with the eeeeek factor). But, if you are on the side of good, BE THE CHANGE, someone else is sure to follow!
Have you influenced anyone lately, or been subjected to peer pressure? I bet we all have, we just don't notice it.
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I love that you're going against the grain of society (at least where you work). People get so weirded out when someone does something different, hahaha!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started working here, I was told that I was a ray of sunshine. Smiling and happy and bouncy all the time (what the heck, thats not how I see myself!!) and it influenced others to be the same way. Well that wasn't intentional. Eventually life hit the fan (I got an anonymous hate letter) and I've become much more serious and "uninterested" in people I work with.
I try to keep positive because it can create a positive environment, but its hard to do when everybody else is such a pessimistic. Bleh.
I was moving a pile of number from the side of the house, to the back yard. There was a good amount of spiders, and I was no biggie Im not scard of spiders. I picked up a 2x6 and off fell onto my shoulder a spider the size of a quarter, I yelled smacked it off, and for good measure ran 6ft away, the dogs thought it was a game and started chasing me. To which I replied, ok I'm a little scared of spiders.
ReplyDelete@ Jay -- you get a huge and ongoing grin for sharing that spider story! lol ...
ReplyDeleteHonestly, sometimes I feel peer pressure with blogging...I tend to edit my words a lot more than I do in real life..lol..on the free painting for other people..I haven't done that for a couple of years either...I am definitely in recovery!
ReplyDelete@Sheryl -- me too girl! I am always aware that I can never please or entertain everyone with my banal blogging, but that never stops me from considering readers. I definitely curb my profanity, which I am more than guilty of using in person when I am mad. Other times I don't write as much as I want. In other words, I too find my censoring my thoughts. Oh well, it is what it is.
ReplyDeleteIts been awhile since I've felt peer pressure - mostly because its been a long time since I've been with people I would consider my peers.
ReplyDeleteNot to be egotistical or anything - but when you mentioned talk about "string theory" I felt "now there is a peer".
@Iggy -- I sense that you are way smarter than me fella, so my side of the "String Theory" conversation would be limited, but I find it NO LESS fascinating of a subject, just because I'm not smart enough to discuss it with anyone. Science, human nature, and a host of other topics are of constant interest to me.
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