After about three weeks of not getting an haircut, I had gone to get one today. The reason I had waited that long was because I wanted the glow up to be amazing and breathtaking after I finally got the haircut..and trust me when I say that extra two weeks of looking bushy and unkempt was totally worth it because I look amazing right now.

When I got to my barber's shop today, I realized he had gotten a new apprentice but something about this apprentice felt familiar, like I knew him from somewhere. So I sat there, trying to remember where I knew him from, and that was when it hit me.

The last time I had gone to get a haircut (three weeks ago), he was at the shop chatting with my barber and from their conversation, you can tell they've known each other for years..my barber himself had mentioned it. So I guess that day was the day he came to talk to him about wanting to become an apprentice but this was my first time seeing him work probably due to the fact that this was the first time I was going there since the last time.

But while I sat on that chair, getting my hair cut, I couldn't help but to think about the apprentice who clearly isn't a kid, he's most definitely older than my barber. I couldn't stop thinking about him because I just felt like something must have gone wrong somewhere because someone his age shouldn't be learning, they should be the one teaching.

Which kinda brought me to the conclusion (although I know I could be wrong) that he was one of those guys who when they were young, would visit their friends at their place of work just to sit and chat, while their friend would occasionally get up to go get a job done (in this case, to go cut hair) and then come back after they're done and continue chatting.

Now to both parties, they had spent their day together, having fun, but the truth is that one spent his day learning a skill while using his free time to chat, while the other one spent all of his day just chatting. The difference is that at the end, one goes home with a new skill, while the other goes home with nothing.

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<sub> [photo by Jonathan Cooper](https://unsplash.com/photos/person-holding-white-and-gold-hair-comb-sS3qRFsKZlg) </sub>

Another example of what I'm trying to say is one particular day when myself and my friends sat outside chatting, and this guy had gone inside to bring his dirty clothes to sit right next to us to wash. So while he was being productive by washing those dirty clothes, he was talking to us too.

To everybody else we were all having a conversation, but to him, we were keeping him company while he did something important. Funny thing was that while he was doing that laundry, he kept on complaining that he wasn't sure he would be able to do the whole thing but before he knew it, he was done washing because his mind wasn't even on the laundry, it was on the interesting conversation we all were having.

The point I'm driving at is that we all should try to be the friend who's always doing something important while using their free time to have fun, and not just use all of our time for fun, because the moment we do that, we will end up being the old apprentice who will find himself serving a long time friend of his that he used to hangout with when that friend was learning that same skill he now was learning.