{"id":765,"date":"2015-08-24T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T03:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2015-08-24T19:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T03:48:04","slug":"short-hair-clear-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/short-hair-clear-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Short hair, clear self?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I decided to buzz my hair. Everyone was getting a haircut, and I’ve always wanted to buzz my hair just to see what it would be like, but I never had because, like Cognitive Behave Yourself<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0I have a high forehead (and large ears), and in general I have a small head and larger body so I thought it might look strange. But when is a better time than now to find out? So I threw caution to the wind and let my friend buzz it all short.<\/p>\n

\"Before<\/a>

Before – on the beach. Hair was already driving me crazy three weeks out from a cut.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After<\/a>

After – at home. So short! So easy!<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking at myself in the mirror last night, I looked sort of like an oddly round-cheeked Vulcan, and sort of like a friend of a friend. I always have an expressive face and the absence of hair exaggerates it. My ears aren’t really that big (I think…).<\/p>\n

Mostly, I keep\u00c2\u00a0forgetting that I have shorter hair at all, since my normal cut is low-maintenance, so looking in the mirror is surprising (as is attempting to ruffle my hair, something I do when I’m tired or thinking). I learned that my hair doesn’t stand up when it’s short, but just falls down.<\/p>\n

I got a lot less reaction at work than I expected; mostly positive. That was nice. Then I was walking home today and I saw some guys coming the other way. I wondered what they might think of me, and realized that I didn’t care. It seemed okay, for a moment, to be myself without any pretense. To be just a regular working\u00c2\u00a0person going home to her cat, carrying toilet cleaner in a water bottle pocket in a backpack. Just one different ordinary person among many different ordinary people.<\/p>\n

I guess I’ll find out as things go along whether\u00c2\u00a0a little doing something that you’ve always been afraid to do because of what people might think<\/em> may result in greater\u00c2\u00a0clarity about how much it matters what people think. I’m still going to grow my hair back out, though.<\/p>\n

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