Thursday, March 06, 2008
A Haircut and A Conversation...
03/06/2008
I have been going to get haircuts by the same lady for close to five years, though I don’t have a clue as to where the time has gone. Linda, let’s call her, is a diminutive lady but with a big presence. Recently I stopped by to have my hair “thinned,” not that it needed be any thinner than it is already, but when it begins to curl up in the back, it’s time to see Linda. Propinquity allowed me to fall in love with the lady who cuts my hair. Her unique perspective on life gives me hope for the rest of the world. It cost me about $4000 to find out what this neat lady knows instinctively, though I don’t think she necessarily knows it for what it is.
I was sitting in her chair, and unlike a lot of people who have cut my hair in my sixty-four years, Linda does not just make small talk. I don’t remember exactly what brought it up or how we arrived at the point, but Linda began to tell me about her husband. It seems every once in a while, Linda’s husband takes a little nostalgia trip and not in a good way. He had mentioned to her an event in his past wherein he had chosen the wrong path, and I suppose he was going on about one of those “if only I had” conversations… Well, my little Linda lit into him about dwelling on something over which he had no control, how it was time to let it go and move on, and how not to allow the past to rule his life. Wow! I thought that is so cool! The woman gets it. Then she shocked me further by telling me she told him life is all about choices, which it truly is. I didn’t say anything, but kept on a grinning and a smiling.
She went to tell me about another relationship. A rather abusive relationship where after a period of time she knew she had to get out of it or die (her words). She told me she chose to bail, and that is when I had to ask her if that was when she finally decided she was worthy. At that point it was her turn to smile. It was then she said she forgave herself of the dumb things she had done in her life. I asked her when she forgave this man, because one is finally free of the past when one forgives the ones that caused the hurt. She had.
I am thrilled beyond words to have done the workshops at Millennium3 Education in Dallas. In the past three and half years, The Nancy and I have invested a whole lot of money supporting others to do one or more of these programs. Money, I might add that we gladly gave and was well spent, given the results we have seen. I believe everyone we got there has gained something from the experience, if only to leave Dallas having fallen in love with themselves. Here is a lady who would probably benefit by falling more in love with herself, but might also be able to be the trainer at one of these because she gets it.
Life is nothing more than possibilities and choices.
Add that is all I have to say about that…