A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for
Marshall Roy — May 11, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
We hear some variation of the following every day: “I could never get away with wearing that!” or “I don’t live in Manhattan—I could never walk down the street in those.”
I’m reminded of some words from Vivienne Westwood: “You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes.” I don’t think she means that impressive clothes make your life better than somebody else’s. I think she means that impressive clothes make your life better than it was previously—and I emphasize that “impressive” does not necessarily signify “expensive,” “trendy,” or of a certain “label.”
Put little less ambiguously by Coco Chanel: “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
Your comfort zone is a prison—fight back its limits whenever you can. Get comfortable with taking risks. You don’t have to start huge, just remember that if nothing’s ventured, nothing’s gained—and even if you miss the mark, you’ll at the very least have gone out with a bang, not a whimper. You’ll have conveyed to the world that you’re a fearless gent, not (as Teddy Roosevelt said) among the ranks of cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
So give the Turqs a try. Or the Mint Juleps. You might accidentally strike gold. Or silver. Or bronze.
As for me—I’ll be the guy in the blurple (that’s blue + purple) patent leather chukkas cruising down 14th Street.
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