Everyday we are all confronted by what people expect out of us. They want us to dress a certain way, act a certain way, do our hair in a certain way, and of course you have to become one of them and be with the in crowd. Why are so many obsessed with not just what I mentioned but so many other things? The greatest thing in life is that we are all different and why should we follow hollowed out foolishness?
A couple of years back I waiting to get a hair cut and I had one person ahead of me. It was a kid of maybe about 8 or 9 years of age at the most. The mother is telling the stylist how he wants it cut and styled. Well when it was done I thought hey the kids haircut looks good! The mother advised the stylist that it was not what they wanted. It seems the hair was not standing and curving like Justin Beiber’s! My apologies if I spelled Justin’s last name wrong.
Now I had to laugh at the whole thing because the kids hair was not like Justin’s and it’s insane to even come in and ask for something like that. Well all hell broke loose at the shop and they had three other stylist trying their best to appease the mother and the boy. Finally it was done and the kids hair was looking a little like Justin’s.
Now I don’t have anything against the kid wanting the haircut. I am sure that at his school there are a butch of other boys with the same haircut. What I was bothered by was the insanity that the mother wanted her son to look like someone else. Why? I have a son and he is my greatest joy to see him being himself and not following the foolishness we have going on!
So do you follow or do you make your own way? I challenge you to make your own way, show people who you are, and how being you is a lot better than following a fad! The fad will fade away but you will still be here.
God Bless
N4KMA