A Haiku - Standards
A Haiku - Standards
Follow good standards.
Not the chic, the lowest one;
Dress shows who we are.
High, low, or no standard?
Standards can be chosen.
High standards? Low standards?
We choose the standards we adopt for ourselves.
Even when the standards are those of other people, we choose those standrds or not.
Modest dress, out of respect for family, God, and ourselves is an available choice.
Choosing racy dress,skimpy clothing, the torn jeans, the exposed cleavage, sometimes even an exposed portion of the buttocks, are available choices some will choose as their standard (though in all likelihood it is someone else's standard they have adopted.)
We are a walking advertisement of who we want people to believe we are.
If we advertise a low standard, people will believe it is our own standard.
If we advertise a high standard, people will believe it is our own standard.
In either case we choose how we advertise ourselves, our family, and our respect for the image of God we are made in.
Obviously, dress doesn't show who we actually are, any more than wearing a Halloween costume does. But how we dress is one indication of who we want people to believe we are.
Our public persona is a set of choices we still control.
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