This woman in line at Walgreens completely made my day on Wednesday. She said she really liked my locks. She asked how long I'd been growing them and I told her. Its been 7 1/2 months and its amazing how my locks keep changing. She said she's tried twice to grow locks but got frustrated both times and took them down. I told her that the one thing you have to have with locks is patience. Lord knows there will be days when you'll look in the mirror and scare yourself. But that's what scarves and headbands are for. I've definitely learned patience if nothing else. I get way more negative comments (mostly from family) than positive ones but I just hang in there anyway.
I really do love my hair and I know my hair loves being locked. To have some random stranger tell me she liked my hair and wished hers looked that way, was really the best thing for me that day. It more than makes up for the other things people say.
I came home, looked in the mirror and said, yes, she's right. I do have nice locks. So I took a picture to update my album. :-)
