For as long as I can remember my sideburns have always been a little uneven. Regardless of whether I had my hair cut or trimmed at a shop or did it on my own it seems as though one side is always just a little shorter then the other. Then when trying to even them up the longer one becomes the short one, so the original shorter one needs to be trimmed up some more and then becomes the shorter one again. A vicious cycle that often led to no or very short sideburns.
I have tried to let my sideburns grow longer, I don’t quite have Elvis style porkchops but they are stylish in their own right. This seems to magnify the uneven dilemma which led me to ponder what is uneven? According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, uneven besides meaning not even also can be defined as: varying from the straight or parallel ; and not uniform.
Well that kind of defines me! I would rather be uneven then unbalanced any day…
The phrases Stop and smell the roses, Take it easy, Don’t work too hard are all ones I have said to someone or have had someone say to me. It is nice to take it easy once in awhile, but if I had to choose I would rather be busy. Not busy with just work but busy with life. At a couple of different points in my life I spent too much time drinking and not enough time living; I have spent too much time working and not enough time with my friends or partner; I have spent too much time traveling for work and not enough time establishing any roots; I have spent too much time doing unproductive and unhealthy things. I often wondered where the days and weeks went while I was busy but busy doing much of nothing. I realized today that I hadn’t thought about my blog or our new website in weeks. Why? Because I have been busy living and enjoying life. No need to bore with details but life is good, this year awesome and we still have half a year to go!
Often when leaving a restaurant, hopping out of a taxi or walking out of shop I hear Man Zou which in English translates to Walk Slow and means much the same as take it easy. Yet another example of no matter how different our cultures may be the are just as similar. Whatever your plans this weekend or rest of the month, remember to walk slow and stop and smell the roses because life is too short and full of too many opportunities to create memories to wonder where the time went.
