by Coral Roberts

Created on: July 26, 2010

Being Blond in a Brunette World.

People always told me I was smart and I had to agree I did have a brain but suffered from one small handicap. It seemed to the outside world that  being  born blond was it..

I though about it, and thought about it. What could I do to make people take me more seriously? To realize I was more than a blond? That I had other attributes as well? Then I came up with what I though was a simple but great idea! I decided to dye my hair a darker color. I was pleased with the results and felt like others were beginning to  take me a little more seriously. Until one fateful day someone I had met since I dyed my hair dark came up to me and said I just noticed you have blond roots!  They asked  if you're a natural blond why would you dye your hair dark? I explained to them that I felt as a blond people did not take me seriously, think I was smart, or that I even had a brain.  They paused and shook their head and said  with wry smile on their face. What you did was such a stereotype blond thing to do .No one can take away from you who your are. You accomplished nothing by making your hair dark !  That is not real intelligence your projecting to the world  it's artificial intelligence! Don't you realize it was  not them making you feel the way you did? It was you, your insecurities type casting you!

As embarrassing as it was  that person taught me a valuable lesson.  It was not others , it was me type casting myself. I know I can not change what people think of me  just by changing my hair color. I change it by being me and working hard to accomplish what I need and want to do in this life.

From that moment on I only changed my hair color for shallow reasons, I wanted too, I was making a fashion statement, maybe I just needed a change. Not to try to impress anyone that I knew my ABC's or had a brain.

 If   I find  it is challenging  to a blond  living  in a brunette world  and I  feel like I am  driving though the  fog with my high beams on from time to time I know I will make it though that fog just fine by accepting the challenges and working my way though it .

I know now that I know that I am, smart, I have talents, likes, dislikes and all the baggage that goes with life just like everyone else

  I also have learned that I may not always be blond but that I always will be and I like that that way just fine with me!

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