Bet you think I forgot to finish the title, didn’t you? Nope! Not at all!
Got my hair cut today. Short!! Yeah like shorter than last time! About six weeks ago, I took a big leap and had it cut shorter. Had the whole bob thing cut right off. I have been trying to style it nice everyday and fighting with it a bit as I learned how to make it look less messy and more sassy, and today I took another leap and said, “Cut it shorter.” Now, the truth is that years ago I used to wear my hair shorter many years ago, and I loved it. It was neat, and always looked nice. But one day, someone made a comment to me about how it didn’t look good with my chubby face. I let that get to me. And so I grew my hair out to a bob that hid my features really well. I wanted to wear it shorter but I was waiting for the chubby cheeks to go. Well, hello, I have chubby cheeks! Didn’t lose them! So if want to wear my hair shorter I have to stop giving a single care what anyone thinks. It’s my hair, what am I waiting for? I have a lifetime yet to grow it out if I get tired of it!
Dr. Jack told me a long time ago, “Start enjoying your life.” Why wasn’t I? Because I was always waiting for….
Since I lost weight, I thought I wanted to try that short, sassy hair again, but realized my cheeks are still pudgy looking. Thank goodness, my hairstylist, Tammy Evans, is a kind soul who doesn’t mind my constant changing mind about my hair over the years. Nor would she steer me wrong with any style. And the truth is that she would have told me what would and wouldn’t have worked but you see, I was always waiting for…. waiting for my self to lose some weight. Waiting for my face to look smaller…. waiting for…. always waiting for……
Today, when she looked at it, she saw how out of control it had grown. I told her I want to go shorter and neater looking. She said it would look great. When she finished I looked at my even sassier hair, that looks great with long dangly earrings I never wore, I started thinking about that too. It’s just like those earrings… why didn’t I ever wear them? Oh no, always wore the conservative posts. Boring, every single day. Why pierce your ears if you aren’t going to dress them up some? Had those holes since eighth grade! What was I waiting for?? Waiting for my hair to look different… waiting for my face to look smaller…waiting to get a more pulled together makeup look, hello, not happening!…..waiting for my neck to look longer…. hello! Your neck isn’t growing….duh! So wear them! Because if not now, then when?
Its like my new winter coat. Was going to buy conservative black, but spotted red! Why did I stand there debating whether buying it would be a mistake… easy! Waiting for…. maybe it would look better if I was ten pounds smaller…wait for myself to be smaller….waiting for….
Gosh how long of my life have I needlessly sat around waiting for?? Always waiting for better, smaller, more perfect.. how much time have I lost waiting for something? How long have YOU!? Dr. Jack is so right! Stop waiting for and LIVE!
So let’s all just stop today. Let’s just take one thing and just stop…..Let’s all stop waiting for!! Don’t let me be the only one hanging out here alone! It’s time to stop waiting for something in your life…let’s go out to the deep end together.. …and LIVE just a little.
Life is way to short to waste it waiting for…..