The first time I went to my wise hairdresser I was 16. He transferred from one place to another and I followed him wherever he went. Finally he bought his own place, but that’s not my point. I was bound to him. Why? Well, because I was connected with him. He made my hair beautiful, and most of all, we talked about deep subjects that I couldn’t even think to mention to my parents nor to my friends.
Even though his job was to “cut and style hair” as Zohan said, his job was also to listen to his customers and try to give solutions to their problems. We all have problems (including me) that cannot be revealed to everyone. My hairdresser doesn’t belong to the group of “everyone.” He was the guy I could “spit out” my problems.
He always had wise comebacks. Was it his talent or his overall experience? I don’t know but I would like to share the three deep conclusions I learned from him.
1. There is a solution, ALWAYS
As I mentioned shortly before, I don’t know his mind-set or way of thinking but he always had a solution for every complication! It is easier to look at things from another view and to give advice to someone else but he always gave reasonable solutions. I crashed my car once and I didn’t know what to do so I went to him.
He encouraged me to call my father calmly and to confess the exact story of how it happened and that clearly I was “under booze.” Believe it or not everything went perfectly. Well not perfect, but understandable. My father told me that he was also a cause in one accident under the influence. He also told me, “Everyone makes a mistake once. The second time you will pay for your consequences.”
2. Not everything turns out perfectly
I went to him for a haircut. It was summer 2011 in July. We had the deepest conversation about all kinds of stuff. If we measured the deepness of the conversation we could touch the core of the Earth, literally.
We talked for hours. One year before, I told him that I was happy, had friends, a perfect car and I had a lot of money (from my parents) and everything was going great. He responded with a secret smile filled with sadness. I clearly remember he told me, “I don’t want to put you down Koko (my nickname), but things change all of the time and you will have to accept them.”
Fast-forward, it was 2013, lots of things had changed. I had couple of friends because all the rest became disinterested. I started making money on my own by working in my Spa Center, managing blogs and writing texts. I no longer had all the free time in the world. This was not a bad thing, but quite the opposite. I was living life on my own and it was beautiful. Far more beautiful when I was living in a false reality.
3. Money is a must
Then a couple of years ago, we had a talk about money and its meaning. He stated it clear with two sentences, “Money is a must and you have to earn it with both your hands. Money is not going to make you happy, but an absence of money can buy you whole lot of miseries.” I live on these two sentences. I don’t know where he got this knowledge from, but I looked at him like I was looking at a wizard!
That’s most of my hairdressers’ wisdom. I had many deep conversations but I don’t want to break my fingers writing all that. I hope you will find your own “seer hairdresser.”
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