Plastics- Jasa Harris

My family isn’t the one to give great lessons or advice like that; I get most of my advice from Rev Run. However, I did get some good advice one Saturday. My family had gotten together to go watch my aunt perform at some competition, so we got all dressed up, did our hair and make up nicely and just tried to look presentable. And back then I hated getting fancied up and overdressed and stuff. Then afterwards when we all had changed and we were heading over to my great grandma’s house for dinner I ran into my cousin Dexter. He kind of just looked at me and was like what’s on your face? I guess I looked uncomfortable or maybe just weird because I never wear makeup and I’m the one in my family who is kind of laid back and “hmm”. I was just like my sisters and grandma put it on me, and that’s when he told me in his thick, country accent “You ain’t gotta be like everybody else.” Even though it was so simple and kind of cliché that’s stuck with me just because it told me not to try to be someone I’m not. Not to try and be one of “the Harris girls”, but to be Jasa. I always secretly kind of knew that the majority of my family likes me more than my sisters, but him telling me this was a nice reminder that some people prefer me as just me. Now my answer to anyone questioning why I do something is because I want to.