My hair is getting really long.
Although I hate to admit it, I have come a long way since a year ago. As I come to the end of my first year in college and it almost feels like my hair represents how much I have gone through since. Actually, if you think about it, hair is a predominating symbol for a lot of women. For some girls, their hair (hairs?) mean the whole world and for others, chopping it all off signifies a change.
For me, I have always gone back and forth between long, short, and every length in between. I’m not really sure what that says about me. Either I am too impatient for it to grow long and annoyingly stay that way or I just cut it when I feel like I’ve gotten over something of my past. I must have a lot of obstacles because I chop it often. And unlike many of my darling friends, it doesn’t phase me one bit. Although I have yet to get a pixie cut, I have gotten it only an inch away. But I’m sure I’ll be able to take that plunge a couple of months from now. After my hair gets long enough, that is.
I think that when you don’t or can’t want to cut your hair, it means that you are comfortable with where you are and who you are. You like how you life is, or was, and you want to keep it that way. There are a lot of girls I know that can’t stand to have any more than a trim. I wonder what it is about having long hair that makes it so hard to give up? Maybe it’s the way your hair adds femininity to your frame. The many hairstyles you create for each and every occasion. The way your hair swishes and sways as you jog down the beach. The way your hair makes you look. Or maybe your hair is who you are - it represents you.
But there are those girls that shred their long inches when they hit obstacles. They cut their hair to start anew, and leave behind strands of the past. In the face of a dilemma, they battle, get over it and realize they don’t need their hair anymore to be themselves. They don’t have to be the same person they were in the past - they aren’t symbolized by their hair.
Boys love long hair on girls. It really makes you ask, why? Is it because it’s a stereotype for girls to have long hair? Or does it symbolize submission and the weakness of the uncut? Then again, they just probably like to pull more hair in bed. Women are so degraded and they have been throughout history. I don’t want to seem like a feminist or anything, but like my friend who shaved her locks:
“I am not my hair.” -Indie Arie