Saturday, October 16, 2010

How do you know if something will serve the test of time?

Most items that hold up well to the times in our lives we consider as how their usefulness endures and they are usually inanimate objects like cars, small appliances or perhaps some things in our wardrobes that become classics from initially starting out as trends or fads.

Hair also could become another listed item for the above ideas of ability to last in its ‘do’ or ‘design’. Wash ability as well as resiliency may too become a part of the determining factors in that vein.

And so I must admit although I wasn’t too sure how this new hair-do of mine was going to fair after it went through my usual wash and wear testing that I continuously repeat daily as part of my morning routine, and amazingly it sprung back to the fresh from the salon look, even without the use of all those frozen in time products that they squish and spray into your locks before they allow you to look and leave their presence.

I personally hate the cardboard feeling that so much of that good for you hair stuff does.

This morning and all day long my hair maintained it’s freshness without the stiffness feel or heaviness either.

I think I will be liking this new look for me, or at least not hating it, which was my ‘first impression’, oddly enough also the name of the local salon I went to.

Next time I will not go for the blow drying since that was what jacked up the price another ten bucks which created the sticker shock I mentioned last night.



Endurance is an interesting thing, isn’t it?
People hold up well and we also use that term.

Products like the afore mentioned cluster above and so we use that term for that too.

Interesting to know that we as humans VS machines also can be compared?

Curious though and too bad we, the human, can’t be fined tuned like them, the machine.

Although, when a car gets rust they do call that cancer and they cut it out not unlike on us and plumbing in the house and plumbing in the body I have heard used in analogies, what have you; clogs and backups, as well as resectioning?

Fix and repairing the human and the machine I suspect are not that dissimilar?
The main difference is when we lose a washing machine and it dies an untimely death it is never ever as sad as any human beings ending up the same way, right?

Sometimes though to hear some people you would be hard pressed to tell the difference when one says my car died and we had to put it out of its misery!

Euphemisms usually are used for us speaking of people and are being used when speaking of someone who has passed away; there I go… going to their great reward, denial, again a very human thing.

I suppose when we speak of our dead vacuum cleaner the appropriate term would be it crapped out, huh?



Oh where was I… oh that’s right, items that endure the test of time…

Not many today, as some very wise people might tell you; we are a throw away society.

I just think it is a good thing that we now recycle whatever we feel has lost its usefulness or has died an untimely mechanical death.

Fashion runs in cycles of seven years, and so most of us who are slow to clean out our closets or have the unique ability in remaining the same size have fashion in the bag; and so updating that wardrobe is just a matter of time, literally.

Vehicles become classics if you wait long enough and maintain them.

Who knows what oldies in your garage could someday be an antique and exceed your original cost in its value?

Smaller appliances become antiques too just watch the ‘Antique Roadshow’, and you may very well find you have a gold mine in the shed, basement, attic or garage.

Keep them in working order of course.

Back to my hair, those dos come and go too like all fashion.

But no one can deny the ability to recreate what the professional did, for your self, at home, as a positive of a job well done by them.



So on that interesting and round about way of saying that I believe I will keep this new me look for a while after all. I will wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to all count those blessings and please folks share those overages and we will too!



And next time be here or be square, OK?

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