My son came home like an excited kid who had just lost his puppy dog. When I asked him what about his internal conflict, he told me the following…
Today, as he filled out a job application, the boss told his secretary to give him a job and then turned to my son and said “We’ll have to trim the hair.”
My son has very curly hair. He has been growing it for 5 months. Needless to say, he had one of the bigger afros you will see on a white boy. His goal was to get corn rows and then keep growing it until the next wrestling season in November.
I finally grew weary watching him wallow in this great loss that he was about to incur and told him that he didn’t have to cut his hair.
“You have no reason to be sad. If you don’t want to cut your hair, then don’t. Tell your future boss to take a hike. However, if you want to buy that Mini Cooper that you have been dreaming of, then cut your hair. Either way, you are doing what you WANT to do! What is there to be sad about?”
“All of life is about choices. To get or achieve “this”, you almost always have to give up “that”. It works that way in most things. If you choose wisely and work hard, you sometimes might be able to have both.”
