What are you going to do about it?

Bisi loves making hair, she enjoys watching people come out with beautiful hair designs and she imagines new hairstyles but she did not know where to make them.

“Mummy can I get a hair mannequin, I want to practice how to make hair.”

“She asked her mother. “Not now Bisi, I will get it later.”

“Daddy, I want to learn how to make hair,” she asked her Daddy on another occasion.

“Go and read your books Bisi, when you grow up a bit, you can learn how to make hair” he replied.

Bisi was disappointed but she did not know what to do. She tried to forget about hair making but she often found herself doodling styles in her notebook or imagining hairstyles on people’s heads.

One day, she heard her teacher say,

“instead of crying and giving up because something is hard or didn’t work at the first attempt, ask yourself, is there any way I can do something about it? If you keep doing this, you keep your brain awake to do its work, because you are a solution provider, but crying and giving up means telling your brain to sleep. If it sleeps too much, it will not know how to help you when you need it.”

That night, Bisi thought hard about how to get a hair mannequin, she slept off thinking. The next day, while at the school garden during their practical class session, she saw the corn stalks with ripe corns and their silky corn hair, as she stood looking at it a thought clicked in her mind. She was so excited!

Immediately she got home she got to work. After several failed attempts, she finally succeeded. Which was to get an empty plastic bottle; stuffed it with used hair extensions she got from the house, and using a stone as a weight to hold it down she was good to go. It wasn’t perfect but it would do nicely.