'It's lunch time and you're about to walk into your favorite coffee shop. The grinds of the coffee gears penetrating your ear canals, the sweet and potent smells of your beverage of choice waft into your nasal cavities as you strut your stuff towards the door.
You're pumped. You've got the world at your finger tips. After a particularly rough morning of work, you're ready for that lusciously bold taste to run wild on your flavor buds. It's time, time in fact to.... suddenly, a person thrusts past you in an attempt to beat you in line. You're thrown off balance for a moment and your swag diminishes for a second (split second is more like it), but a smooth recovery shortly after. That's how it's done, you say to yourself proudly as you continue on your way.
As you lift your leg to Rocky that first step into the shop, your attention is derailed by a light tap on your shoulder. You turn your head to see a young individual with a look of utter discern. "Excuse me" the frazzled individual says, "Would you happen to have the time, I've dropped my phone and the screen shattered...I'm sorry to bother you." The sincerity in their voice tugs on your humane strings and you politely reply, "No bother at all, it is 1:30." The stranger nods in appreciation, thanks you and hurriedly scatters on past you.
Ok, take 2, que Rocky theme song, you think to yourself. You step towards that first step when abruptly you feel a tug on your shoulder preventing your inertia from continuing forward. What the?! You think as you're pulled back. "Do you have the time?" a stranger asks. "Uhh, 1:32." you reply taken aback by the audacity of this individual. You look at them, anticipating some sort of acknowledgment but instead end up staring into a face of disinterest. Odd, you think to yourself and prepare to go about your business when you hear... "A.M. or P.M.?" .... '
Freeze frame this moment, remember the scene I painted was during lunch. We can assume it was a clear day out considering there was no mention otherwise and your character is walking outside to your favorite coffee shop. Since we are able to retro spec this moment, how would you react? How do you feel we should reward this moment? We have the frazzled individual, whom, even though is clearly not having the best day possible, manages to show a bit of respect and intelligence. On the other hand we have a relatively, for lack of a better word, distracted individual, whom, does not even try to make an effort as to acknowledging the completely obvious. Would you bring this person a basket of cookies for their efforts? Would you even go out of your way at all?
Let's now tie this moment to how our society is currently. I'd hate to bring any more attention to this youtube video, but here I go. The hair tutorial gone wrong girl. I'll be the first to admit, this video is absolutely hilarious. Not because it is well thought out, well written, or well acted, but simply because this girl is actively entertaining my life with her asinine behavior. Speaking on behalf of women everywhere (and upon experience), the act of singeing your hair off is undeniably and painfully obvious. Why must we reward this level of asinine behavior? At what point does anyone think, 'wow this girl messed up, we should buy her hair related items'? That's not what I'm thinking. This person did absolutely nothing to contribute any sort of positivity to society. She's not helping anyone with hair related issues, and she's certainly not glamorizing the new curling wand fad. I say shame on everyone who isn't solely using this video for laughing or mocking purposes. (if you're willing to share your life's moments including the ridiculous ones, it gives me the right to laugh at your misfortunes).
I'd like to take this moment to recognize some hair tutorial videos that are REALLY helping young people curl their hair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsBbZbF5GLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArvvCtSj2us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOEVCyQ-49g
Thank you ladies for your kind and thoughtful videos as well as for taking time out of your day to post these. I honestly believe if anyone should be receiving rewards such as hair products for curling hair, it should be you guys as well as many others. If people haven't already, here I am recognizing your efforts and making a shout out for those who TRULY deserve it.
Thank you all! If you have any comments, please feel free, I'm always willing to hear what my fans think and how to improve my blog or what to blog about next.
Enjoy your night!
xoxox
Cece
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