The Truth About This Special Time In Your Life

According to what we remember from pamphlets geared towards 6th-grade girls, puberty is regarded as one of the most awkward and scary stages in a person’s life. It’s a time of horrifying physical transformations, scary new feelings, and growing interest in activities that you are still not old enough to engage in legally. Common symptoms of puberty include: braces, frizzy hair, baby fat, having a crush on 8th grader Steve Julius, blinding body odor and lame extracurricular interests like the violin or Bedazzling.

However, if personal experience has taught us anything, it's that there are experiences in life far more awkward, scary and pathetic than puberty. Here is a list of things that are:


WORSE THAN PUBERTY

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

EXTRACURRICULARS: Great Haircuts Growing Out are Worse than Puberty

Getting a haircut is always risky - it could be amazing, bring you one step closer to your dream of looking like Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly's hottest lovechild, or...it could end up like that time you got "The Rachel" when you were 11, but somehow wound up looking a lot more like 80s Tina Turner.

But that risk is part of the reward; when it pays off big, not only do you look good, you feel as though you've pulled a fast one on fate. Haha, fate, you may have beaten me in the career success, love, figure, face, and friends departments, but I have bested you in hair!

And then it's suddenly 4 weeks later, and fate has won once again.

Yes, there is the option of just repeating your earlier triumph, but some of the glory ebbs away when your instructions aren't based on a fuzzy cell-phone photo you took of a picture on your obsolete computer, but on repeating something that's already been done.

Still, it could be worse. I could ask for a mid-90s Gwyneth...synonymous, on my head, with "Dennis the Menace's bowl-cut."

-Posted by Jilly

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