Every day we wear so many different types of hats, from the Hat of the Individual, the hat which is who you are inside to the hat you wear in the world. The type of person you want the world to know you are and the type of person the world thinks you are in the world.
You wear the Hat of a wife, a husband, a girlfriend, or a boyfriend when you are with the one person you love, respect, and admire. You wear the hat of a son, a daughter, a niece, or a nephew when you are at home with your parents and family.
The Hat of a colleague you put on your head, when you are at work, with other staff members. The staff hats are what people at work know you as either as the Executive, the CEO, the cleaner, the administrator or the manager, or just an ordinary team member.
When you walk into a shop to buy groceries or buy shoes or buy perfume, you wear the Hat of the customer. The people at the counters, who now wear the Shop Staff Hats, now greet you as their customer and take out their best items for you to buy.
The Bank Manager, wearing his Bank Manager Hat, is very helpful and full of smiles on the day when you are ready to make an investment or open an account in his or her bank. The loan officer wearing his or her Loan Officer Hat is also welcoming when you step into the bank with the hat of a borrower. Depending on the hat that is worn and the situation in which you wear that hat, alters the mood and the reactions of the people towards you.
What is the hat that you wear when you are at home by yourself at the end of the day? You do not need to wear a hat because you know who you are inside and you know your views, ideas, and perspective of the world.
However, when your family is with you, you need to wear a Hat. For your family, you wear the hat of the family member you represent, either wife, daughter, brother, sister, husband, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
Do you take care of the hat that you wear in life and are you the best version of the wearer of the hat? In order to add value to the hat and the person it represents, you need to respect, acknowledge and honor the hats that others wear in your life, like your partner, your colleague, your friend, and your family members.
It is up to you to maintain the quality of your Hat, which can be made of the best silk in the world, or warm and full of texture like cotton, or a cheap fabric like jute or an inferior material like cardboard, that gets soaked and turns into pulp in the rain while curling like paper in the sunshine. Wear your Life Hat and wear it well, because it is the only hat that matters in life.