YOUR BODY:

you experiment with it, do things with it before it’s ready to do those things, pierce it, ink it up, deprive it of sleep, scrape it, cut it, don’t always keep it the cleanest, overwork it, maybe you starve it or maybe you overfeed it, maybe you expose it to toxins (nicotine, alcohol, caffeine…), and so much else… maybe you really just don’t even think about your body much.


And what does your body do for you? Your brain, your heart, your liver, lungs, stomach, eyes, nose, mouth, bones, muscles, nails, etc… they all work together so that you can live your life as you please, so you can live your life with the freedom to experience many different things, so you can talk, see, think, feel, taste, touch, hear, run, jump, dance, sing, bike, skateboard, eat, sleep, walk, skip, hop, climb, stretch, kick, fight, breathe, scratch, punch, hug, kiss, have sex, -insert any verb here-… 


Your body does a lot for you. It holds up through a lot of high stress situations.


But what do you do for it? At the end of the day, do you even appreciate it? Do you put in any effort to keep it healthy, keep it in good shape? It may be useful now, but you won’t be youthful and energetic forever. You put your body through so much to try and make it what you want..


So, appreciate your body. It puts up with a LOT of crap from you.

NON-CONFORMITY.

So, non-comformity usually means refusing to conform to the ways of society. You might think of rebellious teenagers or misfits, when you hear/read that word.

Well, yeeah, maybe sometimes people change how they look, or try to look different, to stand out in society, (swim against the current ;P) to be different from others around them.

But, I think a lot of the time, wanting to change your appearance is more personal than that.

I believe that you are not your body. (WHAT? Is Tempo going crazy? No, this is just kind of abstract now.)

Maybe noncomformity is your mind, spirit, soul.. whatever.. taking a stand against your body and saying, “I REFUSE to change myself in order to fit this appearance!”
It’s giving your spiritual side (the real You, not just the physical, tangible body you inhabit for others to see, touch, taste, feel, smell - interact with) more control, instead of letting it live enslaved/bound to the appearance of your physical form.

That’s how I see it, at least. For example, I dye my hair black regularly because otherwise, when I look in the mirror, I feel weird. It just doesn’t feel right. It’s not me.

AT THE SAME TIME, I DO recognize that it IS important to be able to live with the limits of your body, and love your body for what it is - you were born with it and your body is going to die one day!

I mean, I’m never going to be 6” tall, LOL, and I’ll never be as skinny as a supermodel.
I won’t cry about that.

" We've become so focused on expressing ourselves through our bodies - clothes, shoes, jewellery, piercings, tattoos, wealth, cars, houses, hair styles, make-up, body modifications - that we've been forgetting to develop the person inside that body into someone who actually has something revolutionary, unique, and beautiful to express. ”