Life is like Hair Follicles

In other news, I would like to record that after 32 long years of fighting pokey hair and horns, David FINALLY learned how to comb his hair!  We are SOOOO proud of him! Hahahahahahaha! 

In all seriousness, though, he said he was standing in front of the mirror yesterday, fighting with getting enough gel in his hair to get his spike to stay down in the back when he thought, "I wonder what would happen if I parted it and combed it the other way."  Know what happened?  It stayed that way.  All day.  All night, too.  All these years he has been going against the grain, and his hair NEVER conformed! And now we know why.

I was thinking about how much that pertains to LIFE.  How often do we spend a TON of time, energy, money, etc. trying to make something in our lives go the way we think it should go?  When in reality, it was never meant to go that way.  We try this product and that product, this spray and that spray, and surely this one is what will finally make it be what we want it to be.  But the fix is so much simpler than that - just let it be, comb it the other way. 

Unfortunately for David, and for many of us, he wasn't trying to make it something it wasn't.  He just simply didn't realize what it was.  And as soon as he did and went along with what it WAS, everything went smoothly!  Something he had spent YEARS trying to control ended up being something he had spent years trying to change - and once he tapped into it for what it was, VIOLA!  PRESTO!  No more problem.  No more expensive products. No more too-short hair cuts just to keep it from being a problem.  No more hat days just to hid the spike!

I'm only sorry he didn't learn earlier that his hair GREW in the opposite direction and would never comb the way he was trying to comb it without a spike!  Too bad he never had anyone come along with the expertise in "hair follicles" to tell him he was simply combing it the wrong way.  It would have been easier - gotten rid of one extra stress (albeit a small stress - it was still a stress for YEARS) in his life.

Another lesson for life - some simple solutions just have to be learned in time.  No one else can point them out.  No one else can discover the problem or create the change. Learn what IS and let it BE! ;-D