I was listening to a talk at a church meeting a few days ago, and the guy that was speaking briefly mentioned pictures on the wall.
First I thought of the song Pictures Of You by The Last Goodnight. And when I saw this picture, the first thing I wanted to do was get a Polaroid camera. I really really want one now.
And of course he got me thinking and I ended up zoning him out :(
You know I know how,
To make 'em stop and stare as I zone out,
The club can't even handle me right now...
But all of that thinking ended up for good. As those pictures on the wall are going to influence you every day. You may not think too much about it, but you walk by them all the time.
When you walk by a wall like this outside... what are your first thoughts? I'm in Detroit? Naw, I love graffiti. There needs to be designated areas so that people don't do it everywhere else...
Pictures can change the entire mood of a house. And teenagers are some of the worst with this.
I love this.
Immediately when you walk into a room, you are going to get a feeling. And pictures largely influence that feeling. Imagine you are walking into a room with pictures of the sea, paintings of old houses or a meadow, or of a mother holding a child...
I actually took this picture. This is my favorite painting in our whole house. Sorry for the terrible lighting that makes it look yellow. It's supposed to represent Michigan.
And then compare that to the average teenagers room. You walk into his or her room and it's filled with images of abbreviated women or shirtless guys along with other celebrities and posters that influence them.
A few of the many people teens adore their walls with...
The feeling that those two rooms convey is completely different. And those images that your looking at every single day are going to influence you a bit more than you thought.
Try to pick better images. Or at least an image that isn't idolizing something.
Before I zoned out, the man who was speaking at the church meeting told a quick story. He was in a friends house, and his friend at the time only had one TV, and that was in the basement. So all of the time his five boys would go down those stairs. As the speaker was going down those stairs, he noticed there were a couple pictures, most of which were pictures from when his friend was on his mission.
Here's a missionary plaque, that might have been something that was in the hallway.
The speaker went on to mention that all five of those boys went on to serve a mission eventually. Pictures, especially those you see every day influence you. Change up the pictures, and you'll immediately sense a difference.
Sometimes it's hard to see the differences. Like in these photos. There are twenty differences. I've found 18 of them. Never-mind, now 19, look at the green roof.
