I do this weird thing.
I do not do it often.
But I do it enough that I am aware of it.
It happens when I return home from a store.
I know the stages.
They are similar to the stages of grief.
But I skip the four stages in between.
It starts with denial and skips to acceptance.
It is not a fast skip.
It takes a while.
I let it ride out.
What happens is that I will buy something.
I get home, and I look at it.
DENIAL
I think, ‘WTF did I just buy?’
Why did I buy this?
I am never going to wear this.
But I know to ‘hang in.’
I will put it away in my dresser or hang it in my closet.
There is no need to return it.
I throw out the bill.
Time passes.
It could be a month, it could be a year.
Then one day I see it again.
I take it from its hanger or pull it out of my dresser.
I put it on reluctantly and head out on my ride.
ACCEPTANCE
After that day, you cannot take it off me.
I wear the ‘shit’ out of it.
It is now my go-to shirt.
I wonder why that is?
Or why does that happen?
Perhaps it is like a bottle of wine and just needs some time.
Or maybe I can see the future.
This is not the time to wear it.
The time will come, and I must wait.
I have two shirts and a pair of shorts that this has happened to.
I could point them out to you in seconds.
But there is one I will spend some time on here.
It was put away the longest.
Easily over a year.
It was not an item that I don’t wear daily.
It was not the fabric.
It was not the fit.
It was not the style.
It was the colour.
I had never worn pink before.
But over the time it ‘waited,’ it tamed down or I tamed down.
It does not matter which one.
All that matters, is that it became wearable.
And wearable it did.
You could not take it off me.
…You still can’t.
Pink goes with everything.
You really can’t go wrong with it.
My favourite combo is Pink with either a light blue or grey short.
I was a late bloomer for Pink, but I am catching up.
I think I have caught up and will hopefully take the lead.
It is a wonderful colour.
So, if you ever buy something and question it when you get home, relax.
Don’t return it.
Throw out the bill.
Hang on to it.
I promise you will wear it.
https://www.jlindeberg.com/products/eloy-shorts-powder-pink
https://badbirdiegolf.com/products/pinky-promise-polo?_pos=1&_sid=9354fe8ff&_ss=r
‘Back to the Future’
Insert Delorean emoji here.
‘Wear it OUT’