Going after the things you really want in life is the key to long-lasting happiness. Ambition, accomplishment, never giving up?if you want to achieve true satisfaction, you can’t just settle. Land your dream job! Ask for a raise! Save the world, if that’s what you’re into! Lean in. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Win friends and influence people. Lose your virginity, Richard Branson-style.
For my part, I always focus on what’s important to me, which is having cool hair. Here are some examples of hair I’d like to graft onto my head: Any and all Haims. Jemima Kirke before she cut it all off (why"). Caroline de Maigret and all those other sexy, undone, effortlessly cool French women. (It’s trite, but it’s true.) And me, before I bleached the shit out of my long, languid hot-girl hair and chopped off all the dead stuff?all 20 inches of it?because I didn’t know how good I had it. MORE: How Hair Extensions Changed My Life
So I fucked up. People make mistakes, and they learn how to live with them. They develop coping mechanisms. They try to make the best of the situation. Once I stopped gently tugging at my roots for several minutes a day in a backwards and scientifically unsubstantiated effort to encourage hair growth (doesn’t work) and acknowledge that extensions were not as foolproof a solution as I originally believed (too itchy), I moved on to acceptance.
Bumble and bumble Cityswept Finish, $31
That’s where I...