“You can’t handle the truth!” yelled Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholdon, in the movie A Few Good Men. He then went on a tirade to defend himself.
It came back to me when I looked in my mirror after 75 days of the Covid-19 quarantine. This image stared me in the face.
Oh, I can handle the truth. What I—and the rest of my womankind—can’t handle is leaving home without a perfect coif. And so we dye and suffer the consequences of chemicals.
The 75 days of house arrest have actually been grace for my scalp. No dye has touched it since March 16. So I asked myself why I even allow chemicals on my head?
There are over 500 brands of hair dyes in the world, and they come in thousands of different colors and hues, and they are sold in ALL stores, and most of their advertising say: (not in so many words) your natural hair can look better.
And so these become our “truth.” A sad commentary on mankind’s love of self.
I am on the ninth chapter of the book I am currently writing, and this verse made me sit up after that encounter with my mirror.
“ . . . we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV)
Ah me!
There are over 500 brands of hair dyes in the world, and they come in thousands of different colors and hues, and they are sold in ALL stores, and most of their advertising say: (not in so many words) your natural hair can look better.
And so these become our “truth.” A sad commentary on mankind’s love of self.
I am on the ninth chapter of the book I am currently writing, and this verse made me sit up after that encounter with my mirror.
“ . . . we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV)
Ah me!
2 comments:
I've finally learned to live with white. Going out (at least to go to the supermarket), with mask attached, who can say who's who? My first time out, I even put blush on and lipstick, only to realize I didn't need them too with my face half covered. Haha, freedom!
I have not gone out since the first day of lockdown, so I don't need to look in the mirror at all. I made a mistake this one time and, YUK!
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