Look Alike Day: Who Will You Represent?
Today is Look Alike Day, a way to either honor or annoy someone by dressing up and acting like him or her. The question is: who will you be representing?
"Today's a day to find someone you really look up to, and try to look like them," encourages Holiday Insights. "Who should you look like? Anyone you want. It's as simple as that. Pick an actor or actress, a singer, a politician, family member or friend."
Some of the most copied celebrities include Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson. Twitter users have expressed their views on the holiday and revealed who they are looking like today.
Keith Parnell is going to mimic his dad today, while Leandria Hall is going as her friend Natasha. Others are posting photos of their pets and best friends instead of celebrities. Whomever one chooses to associate with can be very revealing, indeed.
"They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," Palm Beach Post writer Cynthia Roldan states. "Today is not just about celebrities. You can imitate your boss, your friend or even a politician… Its purpose is to break up the monotony and get people to dress up like anyone they'd like to imitate."
"What hero are you to look, dress, and act like today?" tweeted Keith Parnell. For some, that may be a celebrity, but others have even promised to dress up as biblical figure such as Moses, King David, or Adam and Eve.
While Christians are not necessarily called to physically look like Christ and other biblical figures, they are called to be examples of Christ for others. In this way, Christ may be seen through them.
Christians are called to be imitators of Christ. Ephesians 5:1 reads, "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly beloved children."
And Paul writes to tell the church in Corinth, "You should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ" (1 Cor. 11:1).
