Today would have usually been hell for me.
I had to set my alarm and unnaturally wake up which always
fills me with a sense of dread and despair (probably from my monotonous working
days), to go to the hairdressers. Although, I will admit, waking up to a loud
noise isn’t so bad if it’s for a treat. I walked the five minutes to the
hairdressers (which killed me as I haven’t been out of the house in over a
week) and waited to be seen.
Once my name was called, I was enlivened to feel ‘new’ again
as throughout my life, whenever I have felt like sacking it all in, I take a
leaf out of Madonna’s book and reinvent myself. This never lasts long as the
old, pessimistic me comes back to haunt me like an ugly ghost, tethered to my
psyche. None the less, it has been keeping me alive this long. So to say I was excited, is now too obvious.
I sat in the smooth black chair and explained exactly what I
wanted. I showed the hairdresser a picture I had made on one of those makeover
sites (where you put different hairstyles on); it was an edgy bob in the same
colour as my hair to avoid (so I thought) any confusion.
Here is how it went:
“I want an edgy bob, just like this one, with layers because
I like a lot of volume. Can you do that?” I asked.
“Do you want it black? Because your hair is already black”
she replied.
“Umm, yes, I am aware of that (you half wit), I just want
the bob please” I reiterated.
“Yes, OK then. Shall we book you in?” she chirped.
I had assumed I was already booked in as I had asked for a
consultation and then a haircut if she could do the style I wanted (because who
would wait?). Apparently this wasn’t the case. How nice. So after the five
minute walk, the five minute wait and the fifty second conversation with the
most perceptive and charming woman in the world, I left feeling angry and
deflated.
For ‘normal’ people, this would have been annoying or a
little set back, for me…this made me regret waking up at all. I was seething
all the way home, cursing being alive, cursing ever leaving the house and
vowing never to do it again. You may think I am a drama queen, but having
severe depression, a ‘set back’ like this can have me reeling for days and
maybe longer.
In the hopes of reinventing, a couple of days ago I went on
a mini spree (online of course) and bought some new makeup and nail varnishes.
The makeup came this morning, just before I set off to the hairdressers. I was
excited to try it out and wear some for that day (for the extra confidence
boost) but when I opened it, it was all wrong. The colours were completely
different and it just wasn’t what I was expecting so that had already set my
morning off badly.
However…
Despite all of this happening (and the many other
little things that went wrong today) I am not reeling. I am over it. This could
be attributed to many factors, my medication being increased a couple of weeks
ago, the support of my friend, finally starting to recover or it could be a mix
of all three. Whatever the reason is, I am grateful as for once, I am not a
raging ball of pent up aggression and disappointment. For tonight, I am
peaceful, I simply do not care. Needless to say, when I do finally leave the
house again to get my haircut, I shall not be going back there.
:)
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