A few days before Nautical Days I wanted to get my hair cut. It is all one length and since I didn’t have an appointment with my regular hairdresser, I thought I’d go to the no appointment, cheaper place. It was one of those days when I wanted it cut right now and didn’t want to wait, and I would get to save myself a few dollars as well.
Anyway, all was good until I got home and looked in the mirror. The hair had been sprayed with water to cut it, and now of course it was going out in all directions. Oh well, I’ll wash it tomorrow and all will be good. Unfortunately, it was not. After drying I could see something was wrong, one side was obviously longer than the other. Oh NO!
I didn’t feel like going to get it fixed right then as I was busy with other things, so this was how I looked all weekend talking to lots of people. Do you think they noticed? And to add to the story, my hairdresser visited the next table to see the jewelry lady and noticed me and we talked. I was trying to stay back so she wouldn’t notice and wonder about my hair. Then after she left I told the jewelry lady about my hair, and we had a good giggle.
A few nights later, I was in the bedroom laughing at how funny I looked, and then I remembered a few years ago when we were traveling my husband got a haircut somewhere and it looked like they put a bowl on his head. So then I started laughing even more and my husband came in the bedroom wondering what I was doing, who I was talking to, and what I was laughing at.
So the next day I went to get my hair fixed. I was in the right place that day to go back and ask them to fix it.
I am reading a book on healing with my ladies group and the chapter we are on right now is loving yourself. This is a pretty important chapter about honestly accepting everything about yourself in this moment, the good and the bad. We put out what we believe and feel about ourselves and that is how we’re treated and is what we get back. We can make our life as wonderful or not by what we choose.
The journey is not about how I look, it is about what I believe, what I tell myself, feel, accept and let go of. It is about always growing and improving. I may not be where you want to be yet, but I’m not where I used to be either.
Years ago I would have gone right back to get my hair fixed, but that week, I laughed about it and knew that I would go and get it fixed another day. It didn’t affect what I was doing or who I was. I had more important things to do, and I was perfect that day just as I was.
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