beingbeaple

We’re going to have our yearbook pictures taken this Monday so - just to appear normal for posterity’s sake - I had my horrible hair cut this morning. Well, not actually cut per se but I asked that nice lady from the salon to tinker with it, you know. She did tinker with it - relax, anyone? - but in the end i still didn’t like the result. Not because it wasn’t relaxed well - gee, honestly speaking, it wasn’t but with hair like the tuft sitting on my head one really can’t complain - but because my dreams of somehow achieving normal status somewhat diminished to zero.

My friends and even my mother all think that I long and pray and wish for straight, rebond-esque hair but honestly I don’t. In fact, I would curl my hair if only my mother wouldn’t object to the notion so vehemently. All I want to have is real-looking hair. I want hair like Nadine Gadia’s mane, hair that looks as if it has a life of its own, hair that shines and glows and looks so… healthy. Jesus, I just realized that even I don’t look healthy - how on Earth am I supposed to have healthy hair.

So I tried to let my mother see my point of view, totally expecting her to go against my opinions - and I was darn right. Right after I told her I still didn’t like my hair - which is undoubtedly better than the one I had about three hours previously - because it still looked fake to me, she lectured me about the importance of being confident and other stuff like that.

Well, seriously Ma, hasn’t it ever occured to you that I’ve heard all those me-empowerment stuff before? For crying out loud I get a Candy newsletter on a regular basis and if THAT isn’t me-empowerment then I don’t know what it is. I’ve read countless self-help books, talked to countless optimistic people… but I’m still downhearted.

Gee. I hate the teenage years. When I reproduce, I’ll be damn sure to do something about his or - GULP - her teenage issues.

This somewhat sucks and THAT is the understatement of the year.

Poof!

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