Eye-Candy

This week has been a very interesting week as far as eye-candy goes.

I have been seeing attractive men all over the place!  I ride public transit to school, and several times this week, I have had very attractive men sit by me.  And not just because it was the last place to sit either.  It has felt very...intentional.  I also noticed a nice-looking fella moving furniture at my apartment complex.  He had a very nice smile; I know because we exchanged glances ;)

But this week has been a little different in other aspects as well.  I've approached this week with an entirely different attitude than I have had recently.  Recently, I have been having a judgmental attitude towards the people around me that I don't even know.  Complete strangers, and I'm judging them.  Based off of their clothes, their speech, their make-up.  Whatever.  Who am I to be thinking that I'm "better" than them?  Before I started grad school, one of my primary purposes in pursuing a higher education was to help people.  And now that I'm getting a higher education, I'm judging and snubbing the people I originally wanted to help.  The downcast and needy.  What's my problem?!

So, to re-vamp my attitude, God reminded me of a verse.  Philippians 2:3.  "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."  Yeah, I have definitely been sucking at this one.  So I'm doing something about it.  I wrote that verse down on a piece of paper and made it look pretty with some colored Sharpies.  I made one part of the verse stand out with some extra color:  "consider others better than yourselves."  And then I taped it onto my front door.  So it's the last thing I see before I leave my apartment.

And honestly, my attitude has been changing.  I'm enjoying my commute, even though some of the other commuters can make the trip interesting.  Because I'm absolutely not better than them.  I have no idea what their day is going to be like.  But I do know that sometimes to get it started off right, all you need is a smile from a stranger.  And I can be that stranger.  To a lot of people.

So maybe that's why I've been seeing more attractive men around me.  Maybe it's not just that there's more of them, but maybe I'm paying more attention.  Or maybe I'm just enjoying the ebb and flow of life happening around me, including all of the beautiful people that I never noticed before because of the judgment I had already passed upon them.  But you know, it really doesn't matter the reason.  This is a good attitude and I'm looking forward to getting better and better at making it a lifestyle, not just a choice I make as I walk out the door.