I Cut My Own Hair and Other Mistakes

11:48 PM

My hair was getting kind of long, so I thought I needed a haircut. I paid $45 or so last time to get my hair cut several months back, so I thought maybe I could just do it myself to save a bit. I've shopped around for a few different barbershops before, I've probably been to at least five barbershops in PR in the past 3-4 years. I basically went to a new barbershop every time I got a haircut, since I wanted to shop around for the best prices, and even the cheapest place I could find was still around $30.

So the last time I got a haircut, I went to the mall and got it at a fancy place, because I figured if the cheapest place I could find was $30, I might as well go for the best when it's only $15 more. Today, I was like, let me try and do my own hair. Yeah, this was a mistake.

I cut my hair with scissors first to get a feel for it, and the results turned out pretty horribly. So I then moved on to the next method, which was to put in the highest number guard on my electric razor, which was 1 inch, and to just shave all around. Well this also turned out terribly, with my hair looking really bad. So I basically just gave myself a buzz cut. Not a full buzz cut, but basically one. That was the only way to salvage my appearance. So now I have really short hair, which looks alright, but I hate that even with this, it doesn't look great.

The other mistake I made today was that I ate too much. I weighed 175 pounds when I woke up this morning. Yesterday I was 174.8, today I was 175 on the dot. Everything was all fine at night, I was at 1800 calories for the day, and I could have gone to sleep and felt great knowing I didn't exceed my TDEE. Yet I got hungry and stupid, and I ate another 1100 calories. Yikes. It's really bad. Anyway, I just have to improve for tomorrow and the next day. Same with my haircut, I just have to let it grow out now. Nothing I can do about it. What's done is done.

The very interesting thing is that I learned a really valuable lesson today. In life nowadays, we pretty much get so many chances to do things. If we fail a class in school, we can just retake it again. If we lose a game, we can just try again the next game. We get so many attempts and chances that failing or making mistakes seems like they don't matter.

Well, cutting my hair taught me that you can't undo some actions. Obviously I've always known this, but cutting my own hair made it blatant. Once I cut my hair with the scissors for the first time, I could not put that hair back. It was gone. It kept getting worse and worse too, the more I cut, and the more and more I realized I couldn't undo my actions. I had to keep going and keep cutting my hair further and further until it was basically a buzz cut, to have it somewhat salvaged.

I did a lot of reading today too. I realized today that I spend nearly all my time reading. This is probably why I know so much about every subject. Yeah I think I waste my time reading though, because instead of taking action, I'm just reading instead.

There's this one writer I found on Medium today. Her name is Lexie Janson, or MaiOnHigh. She is very transparent about her life, income, dating life, and it's interesting learning about her life and experiences. She even posts her income per month, her goals, and some of the messages she receives. Even I'm not that open. To be fair, she posts the messages to disparage the sender. She has two engineering degrees and gets sexually harassed and made to feel less because she's a woman in engineering and tech. Her experiences are insightful to read about.

Anyway, I'm very tired. I'm currently reading a time management book. I need to manage my time better. Anyway, I'm going to continue working or sleep.