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Stories from a Nail Salon 002

Photo by Елизавета Крылова on Unsplash

If you’ve read my story about resilience you would understand that my highlight of the weekend was being dragged by my friend to the nail salon.

While I seemed cool, I was not at ease leaving my comfort zone to go at the time, and now, words cannot describe how exciting and impactful that outing was to me.

For a stay at home mom whose outings consist of school runs, park dates and grocery shopping, now that I think about it, I don’t know if to cry or laugh that I didn’t know how exciting it would be to visit a nail salon.

Have I been living in a cocoon?

It’s either I didn’t know what I was missing out or I’ve had no fear of missing out.

Whatever it is, I’m glad I went out.

I got to see how a family works together to run a business, watched some random and funny Ghanaian show, advised the nail technician to consider wearing face masks for his own safety. I also got a nice bag for my daughter at the flea market and nobody died while I was out getting my nails done.

Wait, did I mention that this was an underground market? I’ve lived in this city for years, heard about the market but never visited before.