“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” —Aldous Huxley
When I was about 16 years old, my Dad allowed me and a high school friend take a road trip down to Texas to check out a ranch he had purchased for his retirement. It had a one bedroom cabin on it, no electricity and only an outhouse at that time. We thought it would be a great adventure. Before we left my Dad saw something in my suitcase and asked me about it. I had bought some hair spray called Sun-In, so he asked what this was for. I told him that it bleaches your hair when you sit out in the sun; I wanted to change my hair color from brown to blonde. He laughed and said, “Don’t use that stuff, you shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature”.
When we got to the cabin, we decided to lay out by the creek that was in front of the cabin and as you might imagine, my friend and I started using the Sun-In spray despite my Dad’s warning. We did this for a few days. The Sun-In rather than turn our hair blonde, it turned my friends hair white as snow and my hair as orange as a pumpkin.
We get back home and my Dad started laughing so hard I thought his stomach would burst. Then I had to go to high school with my new ORANGE HAIR and it was like a really bad dream come true. I was in my physics class and the teacher was talking about the effects of solar flares and then pointed me out in the class and said, the sun might even turn your hair orange. Everyone was laughing at ME. I had a choice to make, run out of the room or turn my embarrassment into something positive. So, I decided to laugh along with my classmates and teacher and I said something to the effect of, yeah, that Texas sun is really HOT!
Of course, my natural hair grew back within several weeks and my class got a good laugh out of my stupidity, but it taught me a lesson…have the ability to laugh at yourself, and…don’t mess with Mother Nature like my Dad told me!
Try not to take yourself too seriously, learn from your “experiences”, even the bad ones.
Romans 12:3
TSK
When I was about 16 years old, my Dad allowed me and a high school friend take a road trip down to Texas to check out a ranch he had purchased for his retirement. It had a one bedroom cabin on it, no electricity and only an outhouse at that time. We thought it would be a great adventure. Before we left my Dad saw something in my suitcase and asked me about it. I had bought some hair spray called Sun-In, so he asked what this was for. I told him that it bleaches your hair when you sit out in the sun; I wanted to change my hair color from brown to blonde. He laughed and said, “Don’t use that stuff, you shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature”.
When we got to the cabin, we decided to lay out by the creek that was in front of the cabin and as you might imagine, my friend and I started using the Sun-In spray despite my Dad’s warning. We did this for a few days. The Sun-In rather than turn our hair blonde, it turned my friends hair white as snow and my hair as orange as a pumpkin.
We get back home and my Dad started laughing so hard I thought his stomach would burst. Then I had to go to high school with my new ORANGE HAIR and it was like a really bad dream come true. I was in my physics class and the teacher was talking about the effects of solar flares and then pointed me out in the class and said, the sun might even turn your hair orange. Everyone was laughing at ME. I had a choice to make, run out of the room or turn my embarrassment into something positive. So, I decided to laugh along with my classmates and teacher and I said something to the effect of, yeah, that Texas sun is really HOT!
Of course, my natural hair grew back within several weeks and my class got a good laugh out of my stupidity, but it taught me a lesson…have the ability to laugh at yourself, and…don’t mess with Mother Nature like my Dad told me!
Try not to take yourself too seriously, learn from your “experiences”, even the bad ones.
Romans 12:3
TSK
