Are you defined by your hair?
When I was a kid, I had really long hair….I was the Cher (of Sonny and Cher fame) of my kindergarten class. It was that long, and that beautiful. When I would go to the hair salon, and they would ask - how I would like it cut -I would always say “please cut it long”. I couldn’t imagine anything worse, than having short hair. Of course that phase didn’t last long, one year later, all of my hair was cut off, and I ended up with a very fashionable albeit very short Dorothy Hamill wedge cut (this was the late 70s after all).
Eventually, I got over the trauma…but for the better part of my life I have always been jealous of “good hair” - I would try everything to get it….but it never failed, my hair always looked better when it was up and out of the way.
When my hair started falling out (after the initial shock), I started not caring so much about what my hair looked like. I now had a reason, to have short “cute” hair styles….but more than that - I started getting annoyed at people who defined themselves by their hair. I no longer had patience, for my friends who would spend 20 minutes in the bathroom, when we would go out - because they were fixing their hair. Really, if it still looks bad after running a comb through it and some product, its just not going to be a good hair day. So get over yourself, and put on a headband, or a ball cap.
I know that my days of having “hair like Cher’s” are long over….and if I had to tell the truth; I am really glad that the battle of the comb is over (pun intentional)…combing out tangles can be torturous. I am now in the “meh” state of hair issues. Perhaps I am able to say this, because my hair has mostly grown back- and while I have “issues” I am not exactly bald.
But I am definitely able to tell you, that the minute I stopped obsessing over what my hair looked like - I became a much happier person.
Was Cher’s hair even real in the 70’s?
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