When you're clergy you have a decision to make: to put a clergy sticker on your car or not? A clergy sticker does have it's benefits at time: decent and most of the time free parking spaces at hospitals. No questions when you park in those spaces for the pastor. But it also has its draw backs for me. If you get pulled over driving, you generally get the "you of all people should have known better." Then there's the whole thing of to honk or not to honk, to give the New York wave or not. To speed more then just a few over or not? I do have a clergy sticker on my car and I do find myself going ohh...maybe I shouldn't do this or that. Some days I think I just scrap the thing off. I'm not sure that it stands for what I once thought it was and I'm not sure that I like being defined by a sticker on my car. I don't think the perks of having the sticker on my car outweigh everything else. So I guess I just created a new project for myself. I wonder how long it'll take to scrap the thing off my car window?
For new readers and those who don't know me, I'm fat. Medically labeled "morbidly obese." I have always been fat since I can remember. It's a multifaceted part of my reality: it's part my choice, part genetics. I am well aware that I need to work on this. I'm reminded every time I go to the doctor: need a flu shot - you're fat. Have an ear infection - you're fat. Cat bite - discharge instructions start with you're morbidly obese (I'm not kidding). You lost weight and still think something's off - loose more weight. I have been working on addressing my weight and have managed to loose and keep off just under 80 pounds. Do I still have a lot more weight to loose? Yup. I didn't become this size overnight and taking this off won't happen overnight either. A few weeks ago, a friend stopped by to visit me on their journey to vacation. As they were preparing to leave, I get stopped and asked to sit. I was told that they're concerne...
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