Scott!
Smash Lord
Link to original post: [drupal=2292]The Magic of a Single Haircut[/drupal]
So, this is my first blog. I tried making a couple before, but after I spent lots of time typing them up, it wouldn't let me post them for whatever reason. They would have been mind-blowing, and you would all have been better off with them, but whatever.
It's funny what a haircut can do for a person. Since junior year of high school (5 years ago), I haven't gotten my hair cut more than 5-6 times. It got so long that in my freshman year of college, I was known to my friends as Jesus. After that year, I got it cut and sent it off to Locks of Love. Then, I let it go, got it cut once a few months later, and then nothing for a year and a half.
At the end of last year, it was long enough to donate again, and I was really tired of it. Long hair is fun for a little while, but it gets really tedious before too long. All that washing and brushing, and fighting with the constant knotting. It's a good experience, because you'll sympathize with girls much more easily once you've dealt with it yourself, but I could never keep it long forever. So, I got it cut off again, to its shortest since high school. Here's the before and after straight from Las Pictoras. I've gotten it cut once more since then, so it's pretty close to that after shot, though it's a bit too long around the ears, and is longer in the back as well.
By the last few months beforehand, I was really self-conscious of my hair. I don't really fit the profile of the kind of guy who grows his hair out that far, and I felt like I was being judged by the strangers I passed. I was hiding under my hair in a way. Now I feel so much better without it. I just started my senior year at college, and I feel like a whole new person. Things are going differently for me. I've talked to random strangers, which is very odd for me. I'm pretty tightly wrapped, and have difficulty coming out of my shell. But today, I met more new people in one day than at any point in college since freshman year. Plus, I've got a new bounce in my step that I'd mostly not had last year. I feel pretty great. I'm a senior in college, I look pretty darn good, and the world awaits.
So, this is my first blog. I tried making a couple before, but after I spent lots of time typing them up, it wouldn't let me post them for whatever reason. They would have been mind-blowing, and you would all have been better off with them, but whatever.
It's funny what a haircut can do for a person. Since junior year of high school (5 years ago), I haven't gotten my hair cut more than 5-6 times. It got so long that in my freshman year of college, I was known to my friends as Jesus. After that year, I got it cut and sent it off to Locks of Love. Then, I let it go, got it cut once a few months later, and then nothing for a year and a half.
At the end of last year, it was long enough to donate again, and I was really tired of it. Long hair is fun for a little while, but it gets really tedious before too long. All that washing and brushing, and fighting with the constant knotting. It's a good experience, because you'll sympathize with girls much more easily once you've dealt with it yourself, but I could never keep it long forever. So, I got it cut off again, to its shortest since high school. Here's the before and after straight from Las Pictoras. I've gotten it cut once more since then, so it's pretty close to that after shot, though it's a bit too long around the ears, and is longer in the back as well.
By the last few months beforehand, I was really self-conscious of my hair. I don't really fit the profile of the kind of guy who grows his hair out that far, and I felt like I was being judged by the strangers I passed. I was hiding under my hair in a way. Now I feel so much better without it. I just started my senior year at college, and I feel like a whole new person. Things are going differently for me. I've talked to random strangers, which is very odd for me. I'm pretty tightly wrapped, and have difficulty coming out of my shell. But today, I met more new people in one day than at any point in college since freshman year. Plus, I've got a new bounce in my step that I'd mostly not had last year. I feel pretty great. I'm a senior in college, I look pretty darn good, and the world awaits.
