So, I know I’m pretty young. I’m 28, thanks for asking. Oh, my, ain’t you nice. I look younger? Thank you, brownie points for you. Now stop, stop, you will make me blush. Sure, I will give you my number later.
28. Not a bad age. And anyways, they say you are only as old as you feel. And I feel pretty young, still plenty to be discovered, still plenty to do. But there is sometimes, once in a blue moon, that it hits you, that you realise that, maybe, just maybe, you are not as young as you think. Ok, perhaps not that you aren’t as young, but that times is pressing, and things change, evolve, and never go back to what they were.
When I was a teenager, like all teenagers do, I used to play with different haircuts, without any fear, and knowing that it would grow back in no time, and, therefore, if I had a bad haircut, I knew that I wouldn’t have to have it for long. In fact, in my early 20s, I still did as I pleased, and even buzz-cut it quite often, leaving it extremely short, without going bald.
And here I was, thinking about doing it again, the buzz cut, for a bit of a change, maybe because I feel the need to feel that kind of freedom again, of being able to do as I please, as so I conveyed it to my friend via email and this is the answer I got:
At your age, and with your hair, if you do go for a buzz cut – that’s it. The worst thing you can do is grow it back after that. So if you’re ready for it, then do it, but that’s it for life. If you want to hang onto your hair until you’re at least 30, then have a little cut but keep most of it!
So… first of all… ouch! Let’s see… ‘at my age’… ‘with your hair’… ‘that’s it’!? Wow. Don’t get me wrong, I love honesty, and I always appreciate my friends telling it like it is… but it just made me think… Is this really it!? If I buzz cut it short, is that it for the rest of my life? Part of me is thinking about never cutting it again just out of fear!
I’m not ready to not have my hair with me. I want to turn 30, and still have my hair there. I don’t want to be one of those that, from 30 onwards, can only have ‘one look’ and that ‘one look’ is the ‘kinda bald’ look. Hey, I’ve had white hairs (plenty of them) for over 10 years now. I live with them, I like them. I’m not ready to part with them (nor the dark brown ones either!). And therefore, the buzz cuts will have to go, for now…
What else can I do for that ‘bit of a change’ that I so seem to want instead?
How about.. er.. starting a PhD? That’s a fairly big change :p
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