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Posture, postura, posizione.
"We must all expect to fail at something... but when you do, fail in a learning posture." - Yolanda
My father for years had been a high school educator and school principal. He said to me one day, that the thing he hated most about the American educational system was that it didn't teach us how to fail.
It he said, taught us that failure was fatal. It taught us that to fail meant and was and would always be, attached to our identity. It's true even today long after he's gone. When we look at high schoolers in America today they are divided along the same lines as when you and I were in school: The smart kids, the cool kids, the cute kids, the nerds, the unpopular kids, the jocks, the cheerleaders and majorettes or pep squad kids.
But where are the kids who just plain get it. You know the one's with their heads held high, confident in their posture of who they are without the labels, or the cliques or clubs? For that matter where are they in our adulthood?
We give ourselves labels and set ourselves up as winners and losers. I suspect we submit to the majority because we believe we have to in order to fit in. But when we get home or alone on our own, we hate those we are holding up and emulating.
We dress like them, style our hair like so and so, wear the latest outfit that so and so wore on tv, yet in a heartbeat talk about and tear them down (Kim Kardashian comes to mind you know they 'love' to 'hate' her or J-Lo who got the worst rake over the goals from her red carpet appearance but her knock off dresses are selling like wildfire at Kohls).
But don't let us be called on any of this for we are not willing to call our attitude of subjection to our idols a posture of respect.
Today, know this to be true, Posturing and posing is like waking up in the morning and positioning ourselves before the sunrise in the East....yet not learning to be an individual and move when we have to. The sun has moved on and we are now standing in somebody else's shadow.
Think about it...
***I'm not sure who the photograhper or subject is here for I would like to give credit. But the symbolism speaks volumes about where we should be headed.
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