The Virtue of Awkwardness

"This lady...I've seen her on this news show before. She keeps touching her bangs. They get in her eyes. I kind of want to reach through the screen and help her out."

I thought all this, then realized my folly...

...because I feel like I am the EPITOME of awkward hair.

I became a pixie haircut girl when I was a mom and started working full time as a nurse on top of that. The pixie has truly suited and delighted me. It's ridiculously easy yet consistently polished. 

But I have also grown out two pixie haircuts, and all of you who know me in person have gotten to enjoy viewing such fabulous phases as the Bieber, the Bobby Brady, the mullet, the flapper, and Edna Mode (my current style, yay?). 

So who am I to look at the nice news lady and want to correct her bangs? Maybe she's in the process of growing them out like me, or maybe she loves them that way and I should let her love them. "Not my circus, not my monkeys!" (Polish proverb.)

People deserve space to be themselves or to change without judgment. They also deserve to like things that are different than what I like. Look at it on the small scale or big scale, but it's true. 

It applies to others AND ourselves. Did you ever think about that? Like, I'm not cool with being Edna Mode right now or ill 100% of the time, but I allow myself space to be awkward and transitory, and I look for the good. 

Like, hey, my straight hair is full of surprises every day and even has a little body because it's short. And bonus, I work on that bed head ALL night, and it is IMPRESSIVE and FANTASTIC! 

With regards to my healing, this deliberateness means my body isn't taking shortcuts; it's doing a thorough, complete job. (Hm, sounds just like my personality: deliberate, thorough, and perfectionistic.)

Rushing that which is out of my control is probably rude. So rock on, body, rock on. And hair, you do your thang, and keep on surprising me (I expect more bed head masterpieces from you). 

Transitions are healthy, and awkward phases mean progression. I'm on my way to both vitality and mermaid hair, plus amazing, eternal things. 

You're on to something great too, so let's be awkward together.