What do I think?

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



Mess up your hair. If you are wearing makeup – smudge it. If you have a pair of pants that don't really fit you – put them on. Put on a top that doesn’t go with those pants. Go to your sock drawer. Pull out two socks that don’t match. Different lengths, materials, colors, elasticity.


Now two shoes. You know the drill.


Need to add more? Ties? Hair clips? Stick your gut out? I trust you to go further.


Take a picture.


Get ready to post it online.


Are you feeling dread? Excitement? Is this not the image you have of yourself? Write about the fear or the thrill that this raises in you? Who do you need to look good for and what story does it tell about you? Or why don’t you care?


(Author: Matthew Stillman)
 
Another trust 30 post that I consider weak.  Now I have this problem of being an approval junkie.  I am always looking for someone to approve of me.  My coach tells me this is typical with a wound from Dad.  But I have been growing.  My close friends tell me that the first thing I want to know now, is what do I think about something and just because others don't hold that belief, I am not dissuaded by my beliefs.
 
So I agree that we need to not fear being misunderstood.  Sometimes when you see something that others can't see, well your the only one that can see it right now.  And because others don't see it, it takes time to begin to convince them that something is really there.
 
Now concerning this exercise, I feel it is a weak attempt to create something that does not resemble the feelings at all.  If I dress up in a stupid fashion, it does not simulate belief in me that others don't hold.  It causes me to feel stupid.  I reject the idea from Matthew Stillman that by wearing mismatched clothes will help me learn to trust the truth inside of me better. 
 
I don't care if I am the only one with this opinion either!