There are some people who can pull off trendiness. I'm not one of them. Style is not my strength. When I try to speak trendy, I sound like a nincompoop. When I try to dress trendy I look fat. It just doesn't work for me.
There are some people who are able to be trendy, they pull it off really well. I was a reference for a girl I know who is being hired at the Limited 2 (too?) . I noticed the other day that she was dressing stylishly. I was kinda proud of myself, because I connected the way she dressed with some girls her age in a Payless commercial. And I sat smugly, thinking, yeah you've got a knack for style. Of course I wouldn't look nearly as good in a skirt like that, but if that was a trend I could pull off, believe me , girl, I would be all over it.
So why a discussion of my trendy disfunction? I think that I'm a nerd, but I think about trends not in light of me the person, but of trendiness among churches (organizations). It is trendy right now to worship in kinda ancient/mystical ways. Interesting. It's trendy to light candles, and mediatate. (That's pretty cool I guess. There's a church in our area with a swimming pool, and on Tuesday nights it's ladies night, and they turn the lights out and light a bunch of candles and the women float...Ok, that's wierd.) ANYWAY, to pursue trendiness is quite a bit different from being aware of trends. Trends are measurable, and are telltale signs of where people are. Trendiness is a game that requires a lot of effort to stay ahead of. Effort that only results in trying to get ahead of the next trend.
Please help me. I'm a slave to stlylessness.
--Ben
3 comments:
Sideburns and facial hair are out. They are so 90's. So i'm thinking you and I are "out of trend". :)
Dude, I cut my sideburns off.pshhh speak for your self, Dawg.
several thoughts...
One, you're either spending too much time in your grass, or you need a break i.e., I think you're losing it! :-)
second, there is always the need for balance between trendiness (synonymous w/worldliness?) and being trendy. "Be in the world, not of the world"..."do not love the world or anything in the world"..."Let your light so shine". Meaning? balance, balance, balance.- and don't lose focus on the goal.
I often wonder if Jesus came today to reach our world/society would he do anything fundamentally different than he did 2000 years ago? He wasn't really flashy after all; but thousands flocked to see/hear/be near Him. Why? What was it about Him that attracted so many? How do we be Christlike in this manner - and transcend the flashy/trendy/style???
I think you'd look good in a skirt; throw in a tat or two and some piercings and you're all set.
Peace.
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