I want attention

2008-12-04 / Opinions

By GARY TOOLE

On a beer can holder was printed these words: "I want attention; just not from you." Some call that right. I call it wrong.

First off, it's just part of this meanspirited attitude that has plagued this country in recent years. I perfectly understand that a decent woman does not want to be hit on and neither does a decent man. Yes, that's right. Men get hit on too. But here's the thing. The real thing. What this was really saying is this, "Let me go around half-naked in public and I will choose who looks at me and gives me attention."

I'm sorry but it just doesn't work that way. If you go around dressed seductively then you can expect to be looked over good by a lot of people. From a common sense standpoint, "Why in the world would you dress like that unless it is to attract attention from the opposite sex and in this day and time, then maybe from your own sex."

Yet, they want to think it's okay. Just as long as no one looks at them and gives them attention except the ones they want to. It makes no sense and the reason why is this, if you

put your body on display then that's what it is -- a display for everyone to look at. So, if you don't want attention from everyone then don't wear those sexy sinful clothes. The best

attention that you will ever get is when folks look at you and say, "Oh, what a nice well-dressed person that is. They look so modest." That's the kind of attention any decent person should want. But more importantly than what you wear as far as clothing is to wear a beautiful loving smile. Carry a hospitable heart around with you and show forth a very pleasant Christian attitude. You talk about attention. You will get it from all the right people. Can you say amen?

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