Miss 5 deliberately criss crosses the Velcro straps on her sneakers each morning instead of following straight lines.
This I love.
There was a woman I knew years ago who only ever wore one very large ear-ring with her hair swept back from that side.. and another old friend who purposely cut her sandwiches in odd shaped ‘quarters’.
These are seemingly inconsequential things to notice, love, remember and draw from others but I love out of the box thinking.
Who says I have to paint the nails on each foot the same color?
Who made these rules that others raise their eye brows over? These are not moral or harmful things. There are times for coloring in the lines and times for cutting flowers out of the colouring sheet. Following the lines is orderly and neat but sometimes deathly boring. And sometimes the lines turn off the brain.
I love that oldest daughter once filled in a survey at school asking her weight with “not on your life”. I may have even taught certain children that if they had a multiple choice form that they didn’t think presented the right answers, particularly in subjects like Health or Christian Living, they could always full in the form as required but add an extra option with what they really thought.
Sometimes the options presented on a form are not all the options there are.
And sometimes the options in life present like straight rows of Velcro on shoes but there are other ways of achieving the goal.
Sometimes the box is required, needed, safe, right and good.
Sometimes it’s optional
And sometimes its slow death.