Ohhh... the first post. So much pressure to say the right thing and post the right picture. How should I begin this blog? What should I say? This one post could really define all the subsequent post I make - I better make this one a good one! No, no, no... wait one moment. First impressions are exactly that. They do not call them first impression because they last forever - they are truly that... first impressions. Yes, we are all guilty of it. We judge based on what we see first. Judgement is something that we all struggle with - judgement of ourselves, others and well... just about anything that we come into contact with. So much of our lives are just packed to the brim with make decisions about people that we know so little about, but have experienced a "first impression". 

Judgement of ourselves is, in some ways all consuming. Do I look fat in this? Will he like what I make for dinner? Are my kids smart enough? Constantly... all day long we compare ourselves with others. What would a world be like without "first impressions" or any other silly comparative practices? Probably pretty nice - but that is just me. 

Growing up, I had a very limited view of judgement. I don't know if it were because of my mother singing to her own loving tune or whether I just plain oblivious to what was going on around me. To give you an example... I did not know there were such things as fall and spring fashions until I was about twenty. Up until now, at the ripe ol' age of twenty-three and soon to be married, I did not know that people actually picked "colors" for their weddings! First thing people ask you when you tell them you're engaged is when is the date (which currently I do not have) and what are you're color (which I refuse to have). But back to my point... judgement. It is only now in my life that I have started to find myself wishing I had more... more like "everyone" else. But!!! Wait a minute, (with my index finger pointed up in the air, as if I had come upon the very best idea ever) I do have everything that I need. We are bestowed, at our birth, with everything that we could possibly want - life. We may not always have love, money, a nice car, the most expensive clothes, but we will always have just what our creator intended us to possess. 

What more could you possibly want? :)

But then again... we are human. And to be human is to want, to envy, to judge AND to be imperfect. Perfection for a human is like... well... a perfect human - it just does not happen. We all struggle and we all hide what we are ashamed of in our lives. With so many areas of our lives - work, home, self, marriage, parenting, and well we can't forget religion... it is truly and entirely unrealistic to hold within ourselves the perceptions that ourselves OR others possess any level perfection.

I wish you perfect days filled with all sorts of imperfect actions so you may grow, strive and become a better person each and every day here on forth.