Split Ends.

This last week I literally did complete disarray to my hair and do not regret it in the slightest. Cutting my own hair has become a very relaxing, stress relieving, and emotional cleansing experience for about a year now. So as much as you try there is really only so much you can do to change your appearance. You can lose or gain weight but it is still your skin and your body type. You can buy new clothes, but at the end of the day you still are yourself and resemble that. There is something so miraculous in the ways we are able to change and adapt our own hair. It is able to change color, change shape, direction, style, feel to the touch, among other things. Over just the last few years my hair has changed so much in all of these aspects. I believe that anyone really considering what their hair looked like just three years ago would agree with me that change has occurred.


Hair is one of the most interesting parts of our body in my opinion due to it’s unique nature in being. It is alive basically until it has breached life outside of your scalp and is then dead, but it is at the same time nurtured by the tiny root connecting it to your head. So each of your hair follicles are in a weird in-between stage where they are dead but very much still alive. As a culture, hair plays a big role in physical identity and we often use hair to be a resemblance of how we feel and want to be portrayed by others.

Thursday I basically shaved off the hair on my sides and back and left a flat Mohawk on top and then shaved lines onto the right side of my scalp to resemble a simple pattern. When arriving at school on Friday I had a mixed range of opinions and I truly was expecting that. People often said “Wow, you gotta hair cut. You know you have lines in one side of your head? Was that a mistake, or what?” It is extremely enjoyable to baffle people through a insignificant change in your life such as a fake moustache or new hair cut.

I cut my hair for emotional freedom from the ties that I often become bound to. I cut my hair because I need change. I cut my hair because I have split ends. I cut my hair because it is my vision. I cut my hair because after so long I loose sight of my goals, virtues and wants. I cut my hair because I love creating and being an artist and I truly am just… creating.

Song of the day - Ok, It's Alright With Me by Eric Hutchinson

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