My children and I ventured to a local water park on Monday to celebrate the beginning of summer. I am not a small woman so I was a bit concerned about displaying all that is me for all the world to see. Not only because my skin would blind my fellow water park goers but also because I don't want to offend.
Now. In retrospect, I really shouldn't have even been concerned but you live and learn. I wore a one piece swimsuit with swim shorts over top. It was as if I were wearing one of those swimsuits from the early 1900's hat included. Can we discuss a few of my issues?
I wanted to approach just about everyone and say out of all of the swimsuits that the world had to offer this is really the choice that you thought best represented you? I quickly found that the individuals that wore the conservative one pieces were more so the ones that their body type would have been okay for a 2 piece. I found myself wanting to go over to those mothers and tell them I thought they were raising their girls with a much better perspective of how to present themselves to the world in order to gain the respect that we all truly deserve. I didn't though because I do not feel comfortable walking up to a complete stranger when I am half naked. It's just a thing I have.
A friend once taught me about high crack and low crack. This phenomenon was well represented on Monday. Are you familiar with this? Let me just say that if you have high crack I don't care how skinny you are a 2 piece may still not be the look for you. That being said I want to add that the whole water park had a horrible crack problem that had nothing to do with drugs.
String bikinis. Have you ever heard the expression 10 pounds of potatoes in a 1 pound bag? Well this was more like 300 pounds of potatoes in a 1 ounce bag. Rule of thumb. If when you put on a swimsuit and you look in the mirror and a majority of the swimsuit is not visible, because your skin is covering it....move on to the next swimsuit. The job of a swimsuit is to cover your parts. If your parts are covering your swimsuit it is defective....move on.
I want to touch on tattoos. I don't have a problem with a nice tattoo. I don't even have a problem with a full body tattoo if it is done well. I'm not really big on tattoos on the face but that's just me. Tattoos can be works of art. I want to go on record as to say that it takes a special kind of person to have a tattoo. This plays on many levels. Hear me out....
If you are doing something because you love it then it is one thing. If you are doing something because everyone else is doing it and you want to be "cool" you just end up looking out of place. Some of the tattoos I saw on Monday were indeed works of art and had excellent placement. On the other hand, random cartoon characters gallivanting all willy nilly about ones body....not so much.
As I finish up this little blog entry, yes, I do realize how horribly critical I am being, and yes I realize that the people that were at the water park were not only oblivious to my concerns but my little rant will not change their mind the next time.
Lesson to be learned. It is a big planet. A planet filled with billions of people that were all raised differently from you. You will have similarities with each of them even if it is just that you both enjoy oxygen. The next time you meet someone that is a polar opposite from you rather than being appalled by their differences try to find the similarity. You just might end up being surprised with what you find.
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