The importance of being earnest

If you want to be taken seriously, be serious with yourself.

I don’t disagree. Not at all. The real question is what makes you earnest. Our every day life is full of fallacies which make us want to behave as adults should. Unfortunately, most people confuse earnestness with a fake tendency of looking earnest.

I am really curious to learn how people who dress formally day by day feel. Do they really like their appearance? Would they exchange their ties with a cool t-shirt?

There are plenty of ways which can fool us and make us behave like “mature people” should: our dress style, the magazines we read, the hardware in our kitchen, our shampoo are some of them.

I always believed this is not the serious part of life. What makes one earnest is the particular way he takes his very happy and his very sad moments in his life, the way he treats people, his professionalism etc.

People who try to look earnest without being so are people who hide things consciously or not. People who can do bad things at bad times. The worst events of human history were triggered by people who looked serious.

Don’t get me wrong, I do like people who follow their own style, no matter what. There are people who are born to follow a business dress code and they look great in it. This is not what I am trying to say.

What I really want to say is that as long as it regards me, I need to take myself not so seriously sometimes. If some people believe that this makes immature then I am. I can’t do anything to convince them. It’s OK.

In the first photo there is Pluto from Eurodisney in Paris. When I went there I missed my chance to take a photo of my own. So I borrowed one from KatmaiAD in Flickr.

In the second photo there is one of my new t-shirts. I bought it from cottyn recently. Isn’t it very serious? (The guy in the photo isn’t me of course.)