Don't worry, be happy.

"Do what you love, and love what you do."

That's a pretty basic statement that people say, right?

I love hair. I love styling it, and really when I say styling, I mean styling. Curling, straightening, up-do's, etc. I can do everything else like cutting, coloring, perms, but that is what I love more than anything. Stupid to go to cosmetology school for 2 years only to get licensed to curl someone's hair, right? Even though I don't do all the cutting and what not, doesn't mean I don't love it. It doesn't make going to school a waste of time. I still love it and I still want to pursue a career in hair. That will never leave me. But something else I love just as much is photography. Whether it's taking pictures of people, sports, nature, whatever. I love it. I'm not great by any means, I'm just an amateur, but I do a good enough job that people don't say my pictures suck (Or so I'd like to think they don't say that). Yesterday I got to take pictures of my boyfriend's little sister and I enjoyed every single minute of it. Every single hot, sweaty, humid, minute of being outside in the 95 degree weather. I thought the pictures I took turned out pretty great and both his mom and his sister liked them.

What I'm getting at in all this is, I've learned that you can't compare what you do or don't have to others. I'm learning this slowly but surely and it's tough. It's a tough lesson, but it's a good one. Because if you always compare your stuff to someone else's, then you will never be happy. You will always try to compete with other people, and that will not only get you in financial trouble, but it will affect your relationships with other people. I can't compare how well I fix hair to all the other hairstylists around me, and I can't compare how my pictures turn out to all the other photographers I know. All I can do is try my best and be happy with what I have, in all aspects of life. This doesn't just pertain to your career, it happens all the time in all areas of life.

So what I have to say is...
Don't worry, be happy. I have to take that advice myself everyday. I have to learn to be content with what I have, and I don't have much, but I also can't afford to have what others have. I can't afford new camera lenses, or new software for my computer. But as long as I learn to be content with what I have, work with what I've got, I will be rewarded in the long run. Patience is the key.

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