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My Journey Into Getting My Hair Braided
For years, I had wanted to get dreadlocks. I really liked how they looked on the people that had them. I would look at guys who had the dreads in their head & think ‘’I want that style’’. I even saw Denzel Washington have this amazing dreadlock look in one of his movies (Virtuosity).
I used to talk about wanting them with my sister a lot!
I would eventually let my hair grow out to begin the process, but, after a while, I would cave in, and get a haircut, because I didn’t have the discipline to go all the way to achieve my hair goal.
This cycle would continue through the 2010s — until the pandemic took over the world in the early part of 2020.
Not too long afterward, the place I worked at would furlough(release) its employees, because of the Covid-19 scare.
So, I spent the first two months staying inside my apartment(unless I needed to go grocery shopping) worrying would I be a part of the unfortunate people who would lose their lives to Covid-19, while watching movies & stand-up comedy videos on Youtube.
That got old after a while. Then, I would try things like Yoga & learning Spanish. The Spanish learning lasted for about two weeks. Yoga lasted a little longer, but, then I lost the drive to keep doing it.
