Wanna Play a Board Game With Me?

Last night, my roommates and I got totally sucked into the show 'What Not To Wear'. I'll admit we do have some tendencies to become obsessive about certain reality shows, however; I can't recall a time in the past 3 years of living with them that we have intentionally sat down to watch 'What Not To Wear' like we did last night. We were captivated by many things on this particular show, such as: the extremely poor choice of clothes from the contestant, her childlike attitude towards all things mature, the way her arms were consistently locked straight out in front of her and her obnoxious high pitched voice. Needless to say, we were intrigued and in for the long haul. We must've tried at least 2 times to fast forward through the commercials using the DVR, just hoping that maybe somehow we had paused live TV at some point without any of use realizing it... It never worked.
At one point, when they were going through all her old clothes they brought up a clip of her in long jean overalls. Naturally, they (Staci and Clinton) made some sort of witty/hilarious joke about how it is never appropriate to wear long jean overalls and then asked her why she wore them. Her response was simple, pure and genuine:

"I wear them because they are comfortable. Because I am me in them. I wear them because I think that when people look at me in them they think, "I'd like to play board games with that girl.".

After laughing at her comment and repeating it multiple times throughout the course of the show, I have thought of how innocent her comment was. Although her claim to fame on the show was that she didn't care about fashion and had never worn makeup because both those things were superficial and fake, she clearly does care about what people think and how the view her. She wants them to want to play board games with her. So it got me thinkin'. Thinkin' about how it would probably be therapeutic, healthy and possibly very beneficial for me (and YOU) to know what you want people to think when they look at you.
When people look at me, I want them to think:


-She has her head on straight.
-She looks put together.
-She has a nice smile. (Working on smiling more and looking more genuine with it- smiling with my eyes)
- I wonder what she does with her spare time...
- That was nice of her to acknowledge me.
- Yellow is her color.
- I would like to be her friend.
- I am thankful for her.
- She has made a difference in my life.
- She really doesn't care what people think.
- Wow, she is fun!
- What a good friend/teacher/coach.
- She made me feel important.

I could go on. I won't though. Some of those things may seem trivial. And yes, some may even seem superficial or not honest. That I am trying to be/live in specific ways rather than by just who/how I am. But there is nothing wrong with trying and striving! I could have made it a more eloquent list but I jotted those items off in less than a minute flat so I know they are honest, real and sincere. I hope you do this too! Heck- I hope you do it and leave them in a comment for me! Please. I was right earlier when I said it might be healthy and beneficial for me- it will be for you too!

Oh, and another one to my list, because, honestly, who wouldn't want this thought:

-I'd like to play board games with her.