Making mistakes

Everyone in life at some point makes a mistake, could be a small one or could be a big mistake but everyone does make them. During my life so far I have definitely have had my fair share of mistakes, some being small ones and some being bigger mistakes. Mistakes are apart of life and even the people you think wouldn’t make mistakes do and will. I am going to share a personal story of when I was younger and one of the mistakes I made early on which involves some nail clippers only under the watch of my older brother.

When I was younger I used to have bangs which I absolutely hated and I had short bobbed hair which I also hated. All I wanted to do was grow out my hair super long when I was younger and I wanted to get rid of the bangs so bad. My mom wouldn’t let me grow my hair out until I could take care of my hair on my own and I hated that so much. I had become impatient one day while at my mother’s house and I decided that I would take nail clippers, yes nail clippers of all things and cut some of my bangs. This led to me having uneven bangs and it looked so bad I started to panic for a solid 20 minutes in the bathroom not sure on what to do with my mistake I made and how my mother was going to react to my new look as well as my brother because I knew he would make fun of me for months after this.

After I cut my bangs with nail clippers I quickly regretted doing so when I realized how bad my hair now looked. It was just a chunk of my bangs missing and it looked pretty rough to be honest. When my mom got home I immediately showed her what I did to my hair and my new hairstyle I would be rocking until it grew back. When she saw she first asked me, “What did you do to your bangs!!” then asked me “how in the world did you do this”. So I showed her how I did with the nail clippers. She did laugh at it for a minute because of the fact I was so determined to get rid of these bangs that I actually used nail clippers to do so. I don’t blame her now for laughing but at the moment I was upset with her because she was laughing at it and it was just not a nice feeling of your mother laughing at you after you were panicking. Safe to say I was not allowed near any nail clippers for a while that’s for sure.

I did get in a bit of trouble for this but what was my real punishment was my mother would not take me to a salon to get my hair fixed instead she told me that I have to deal with the consequences of what I did and I would have to go to school etc. with my bangs all messed up. I also had to deal with my older brother constantly making fun of my bangs and how messed up they were.I was not happy with my mom after she told me that even though I could have avoided this all together but I chose to do what I did instead which I regretted pretty quickly after doing this. This was not a fun thing to deal with at all considering I had to go out in public with my bangs missing a chunk and it looking all wonky.

This mistake in reality was not a big one but when this happened I definitely thought it was. I made a mistake and the consequence was not fun but I did learn a lesson thats for sure. I never ever did that again and I sucked it up of having bangs and a bob until I was old enough to let it grow out. Making mistakes isn’t always something huge even if it might seem like it is in the moment later on you will learn that mistakes are apart of life. My mother and I now laugh about this situation whenever it gets brought up because of the fact I used nail clippers to do this to my bangs. Moral of the story don’t ever try to cut your hair with nail clippers.

“pretty girl eliza” by bradleygee is licensed under CC BY 2.0.