Match THIS
Hold on to your horses all you people out there who actually look in the mirror before you go out into the world, for I am to make a statement right here and right now! Here is that thing: I don’t see why everything has to match. Why does it? Symmetry I can understand, but matching everything there is to match up? Doesn’t life loose its fun when we try to control everything we can?
Not to mention the time it takes to match everything there is up; and with the world so matching-crazy, it’s easy to see why so many people feel the pressure to meet the required unwritten law. I am not suggesting anything crazy like wearing two different asics running shoes, but take odd socks, for example. I am a firm believer in not wearing matching socks. I have never seen much point. And here’s the thing: with all that time I accumulate from not matching socks up (something which I have calculated wastes at least a year of every human beings life over the course of eighty years) I have plenty of time to do other things: over the course of my lifetime I expect I will have on average 3 more months than a sock-matcher would for sleeping (and therefore dreaming, which is a good bonus if ever there was one) and 3 months riding my bike around in the sun. The remaining six months I intend to waste on anything I see fit at the time. And here’s the cool thing: the more stuff I don’t bother to match up, the more stuff I will be able to do. Have you ever wondered why people who wear odd non-matching clothes seem so happy? Well, now the answer is obvious: by cutting down on matching anything, they have accumulated YEARS to do anything they see fit.
How’s that for an initiative to have more fun?