When I was young,
I had my hair done for me.
Ponytails, pigtails, whatever.
And then it being the '90's.
My hair was chopped off due to lice.
I cried, and cried. I was in the second grade.
"I look like my grandma..."
I thought.
Years go by of growing it out.
Boys used to pull on it,
as if
I were a
doorbell.
My hair was long but I did not know what to do with it.
I would spray it with foam, or spritz.
I did whatever I could to it.
I burnt it with a straightener.
I was even silly enough to use a curler on my already naturally curly hair.
Like I said,
I had no idea what I was doing.
Then I chopped it off.
Like it was nothing.
And I didn't care.
It's growing back now.
Almost to my *** which is what I wanted from the start.
Sometimes you have to lose before you gain.
Hair I mean.