This I believe (2)

I listened to “Returning to What’s Natural” by Amelia Baxter-Stoltzfus. She realizes that even though she may die her hair she knows that she can still go back to the color she was born with easily. She talks about how her mom always used to say that the color you were born with is the color you should have. However, she enjoyed mixing it up. She could easily be bold and chose red or not so bold and go with just some highlights. She enjoyed putting some spunk in her hair during the winter or not as adventurous for summer. She loves that she can always go back to what is natural.  Even though she may want to reinvent herself with her new hair color, she won’t know what color works best until she tries it. So for all she knows she may look awesome as a red head but if she never tried it she will never know.  She does like permanent change, though not for her hair die. That is the one thing she enjoys mixing up.  She wrote her “this I believe” speech when she was in high school, so her thoughts may have changed once she went into college, but throughout high school that is what she liked and how she wanted to mix things up was through her hair color.

                I can’t relate to her story as much as I could with my first “this I believe” speech. For one I have never died my hair, and two I’m not one for change. I seem to like what I’m used to and like to stay in my comfort zone. At times I wish I didn’t like the “norm” as much, but I can’t help it, I like a routine and for things to stay that way. I enjoy a few new things here and there but for the most part I enjoy keeping with the same thing.