From Suits To Slides
I was driving to a meeting this morning when I looked down and realized I was wearing Under Armour slides. White ones. And they don’t even belong to me. They are my 15 year old daughter’s slides I threw on as I was running out the door. With leggings and a t-shirt. A few years ago I was going to meetings in suits and heels. Now there’s a mind bender. And a bit of a jab on the old ego I might add.
Kelowna aka laid back KTown aka Kelownafornia is a place where you will be hard pressed to find a suit. There may be one block or two downtown that if you sat and tried to watch for suits walking down the street at noon, you may get lucky and spot a few. And they would be downtown lawyers. I think that’s about it for suits in this town.
At first when I saw my slides while speeding to my SoulLife meeting, I had 100 thoughts race through my mind. How did I get here? I really have taken a turn for the worse. I’m so embarrassed. No I’m not! I love wearing slides and who cares! No one dresses up in Kelowna. I wear this to run to the grocery store but not to a business meeting. I mean honestly Kelowna is full of beautiful in shape people who very much care about image and what they wear. I hope I don’t see too many people I know today. (of course I did bump into one of the most prominent business men I know at the coffee shop… and I will say he looked at me 3 times before he recognized me. Lucky for me he was so happy to see me when he did see it was me haha and even gave me his cell number to grab a coffee soon).
So you see? It was fine. Image does matter but I am setting a new tone. What I am working on these days is changing people’s lives. Whether I wear a suit or slides makes no difference. In fact, maybe in this next chapter of my life I will learn to live in a city full of beautiful people and have no concern over what others think. If my slides (or borrowed slides) help me to bring health to people then slides it is. Who knows, maybe slides make a bigger impression than suits anyway.
