Expressing Oneself

If you could paint a backdrop to your life, 

what would you paint?

What images, words, and colors would 

you use to show the indescribable?

We may not consider ourselves to be artists

however we do everything we can to put

our own unique personal stamp on the world

getting discouraged by any lack of expression.

Our primary canvases place on easels

but on our bodies and within our homes.  

We choose to express or hide through the 

use of garments or four large walls. 

What does our clothing say or not say about us?

Are we girly and whimsical in bright yellow sundresses

or are we fully, sexy woman running our own lives 

in sleek and fitted office attire?  

How do our living rooms reflect our interests? 

What does our furniture placement, wall colors, 

light fixtures, and wall portraits say about us?

Do they convey what we wish them to?  

The media capitalizes on this notion: 

You are what you wear and where you live!

Though I would argue that we are so much more

than how we look and what we own.

If we were displaced from our homes without

our staple outfits of fashion, would we not be ourselves?

Would we panic by the idea that no one would know

how to interpret who we are?  

No, we would worry about our family and our friends

wanting to know where they are and if they're okay.

Who we choose to befriend and what we do 

will allow more insight to who we are.  

How important is it to remember what matters and what doesn't?

Sure, pursuing our sense of style and expressing ourselves 

is more than fun and says a lot about us 

but it is not everything that we are, and that's a good thing.