Whose House? Hawks House!
That brilliant girl is my niece. No, not the one in the T- Shirt, the one in the Hawk costume. Thanks to Facebook, I found out she’s the mascot at my Alma Mater (her soon to be Alma Mater). As soon as I saw this picture, I thought… “How cool!? That’s awesome that Nya’s doing that, but I couldn’t have been our school’s mascot, people would have thought I was crazy.”
My thought immediately following that first thought was… “What in the world?! That doesn’t even make sense.”
This got me to thinking, how many times have I chosen not do something because of what I thought other people would think? For that reason I’ve compiled a list of things that I thought twice about doing, why I thought twice about doing them and what the potential positive outcome would have been had I followed through and said, Who Cares!
| WHAT IF I … | NO WAY PEOPLE WILL THINK … | BUT IF I HAD… |
| Wear my favorite pair of Lime Green Sparkly Jeans to HS | I’m Crazy | Oh wait… I did that |
| Ask my crush to homecoming | I’m Desperate | We could be married with 5 kids… Ok not really, but maybe I would have had a lot of fun? |
| Go to that birthday party alone | I’m Weird | I could have made a new friend or caught up with an old one |
| Buy those UGG slippers with the fur inside | I Have bad taste | I would have had one less blister from the high heels I bought instead |
| Make that phone call after I already emailed | I’m pushy | I would have gotten my information 24 hours earlier. I finally did call the next day. |
| Write this Post | I’m silly | One person might decide “I’m silly for letting people effect my decisions.” |
The people closest to me will notice that most of these things don’t matter to me anymore. But whenever I catch myself making decisions unnecessarily more complicated than they need to be by factoring in others’ opinions, I take a step back and start over. I’m sure there are incidences that I could add to this list. Hopefully you don’t have any- or if you do you’ll able to catch yourself before you care too much.
What have you thought twice about doing?
~Thankful
Thankful For a Million 