So today I venture into World Market in hot pursuit of a lamp for my office. Although nice ones they had, nothing fit what I was looking for. On my way out I find a bracelet in the clearance bin for $3.98. Feeling like a champion I precede to the checkout in which the cashier recites my total…a whopping $4.31. Digging ferociously for my money I realize that I’d changed bags and my money could be in a number of compartments. Deciding to make it easier on the people behind me and not hold up the line I choose to use my credit card instead. With receipt in hand I scurry to my car puzzled about the where a bout’s of my money. Going through each compartment I finally locate multiple crumbled up one dollar bills and change to boot. Thinking I could use a Dirty Chi from Starbucks with my findings I decide to head to Pier One as to not get distracted in pursuit of my lamp.
Thanks to a slow driver in front of me I miss the light and while waiting patiently for the next one I notice a homeless guy a couple of feet away from me carrying a sign. Without thinking I dig into my bag and hand him my crumpled bills minus the change in which he gladly accepts and thanks me kindly. As I drive off I think to myself that I should have laid some guidelines about using the money for food purposes only. And just as fast as that thought came it quickly vanished and I found relief in knowing that obviously his reality was not my own.
As a Image and Style Expert I see things that move me to wanting to tell random people in random places about image and how first impressions still reign supreme. The fact of the matter is their reality is not mine and when a person is ready to change then an awakening it will be. Up until that point and as tough as it may be I’ve learned with or without my Image Consulting hat on it’s still up to the person to want to change…and in the event they choose not to it’s still their reality good bad or indifferent.