Some changes are just harder than others. It hasn’t been easy, but I lived through my mother’s death at an early age, loss of a job, divorce and I’m making my way through a new, very different boss. Ironically, we often have the fortitude to survive the big changes. But I just don’t know if I can survive the latest change: my hair stylist is closing her salon on January 1st! I was a salon hopper until I found her. She is the hairdresser who finally -- in my 50’s -- got me to make peace with my naturally curly hair. I found someone at last who knew how to cut it.
She is closing her salon for a perfectly reasonable reason; owning a business is demanding and she needs to take a little better care of her health. It’s the right decision for her. Now that we’ve had that moment of humanity, let me make this all about me. This is traumatic for me! Like, OMG, how will I ever find somebody good again? We love our hair stylists.
And we love our dentists and our gynecologists. When they retire…those are the really big changes in life. About one year ago I had to change dentists. I’d been with my guy for about 30 years. Fortunately, he turned me over to his partner, also his sister-in-law, and I like her really well too. One friend said she didn’t go to the gyno for five years because she was mourning the old one and couldn’t move on. I think we get over ex-husbands faster.
She is closing her salon for a perfectly reasonable reason; owning a business is demanding and she needs to take a little better care of her health. It’s the right decision for her. Now that we’ve had that moment of humanity, let me make this all about me. This is traumatic for me! Like, OMG, how will I ever find somebody good again? We love our hair stylists.
And we love our dentists and our gynecologists. When they retire…those are the really big changes in life. About one year ago I had to change dentists. I’d been with my guy for about 30 years. Fortunately, he turned me over to his partner, also his sister-in-law, and I like her really well too. One friend said she didn’t go to the gyno for five years because she was mourning the old one and couldn’t move on. I think we get over ex-husbands faster.