National Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

 Happy National Inspire Your Heart with Art Day!

I (Amy) spotted this bit of graffiti at Agate Beach, Oregon while on vacation with my husband and our friends. They are published authors, and so they stopped to analyze this.

It says "your PERFECT" and of course "you're" is misspelled. Was that done on purpose to make the point that the reader is both imperfect and perfect? "your" is lower case, "PERFECT" is all caps. Again, was that done on purpose to make the point? And then someone cleverly scrawled, "No I'm not." The "No" is so faded that it's barely visible, but the "I'm not" is more readily seen. I should have taken a photo of them analyzing this because it was quite a moment, but I didn't think of it because I'm not perfect.

What does this have to do with self-defense?

First, I keep emphasizing that the first step to self-defense is believing that you're worth defending. If you don't believe that your own life and your own well-being are worth defending then nothing else matters. Put in more positive terms: you must believe that YOU are worth defending in order for anything else to matter.

Secondly, Situational Awareness is fun! Situational Awareness is not looking for bad-guys behind every bush rather it's being generally aware of your surrounds, and when you're aware of your surroundings then you're going notice cool things like this bit of graffiti.

I wrote a brief primer on Situational Awareness here:

https://streetshieldselfdefense.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-brief-primer-on-situational-awareness.html

Go out and spot something cool and beautiful today. Go out and Inspire Your Heart with Art.

Be bold and stay safe,

Posted by Amy.