So I picked what I wanted to watch, punched in that channel and settled back to enjoy an hour of not thinking. The commercial on was about hair care products of some sort or another.
So I sat watching them tell me how I was ruining my hair, and probably my life, by using shampoo and how even blonds (which I'm not) can have shiny hair if you just use this product. Admittedly I was pretty engrossed, I mean look at how great my hair could look! And I would probably become a movie star like the movie star vouching for this product and I would feel great and wonderful and all because I figured out I was ruining my hair with shampoo and there is a better product out there!
Brilliant!
But wait... this commercial has been going on for like 10 minutes a voice in my head said through the awesome hair daze. What?
Sure enough, I had type in the wrong number or I had hit the remote and it had gone up or down a channel. And instead of watching a show I was watching a former 90210 star tell me about my hair. Huh.
It was a pretty innocent mistake and pretty easily fixed but I wonder how often in life do we take a small turn, a small detour, so minute we don't even realize we're doing it and yet it is shaping the way we think in ways we never intended. My hair is fine, no perfect, not movie star quality, but it is fine, there is nothing "wrong" with it. But I was ready to buy, to spend an extreme amount of money on their non shampoo, what would have happened if I had stayed on that channel for another 10 or 15 minutes? What is happening to us because we're staying on the detour any longer than we should?
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