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I just thought I'd drop in since I found this site whilst trying to figure out how to properly tie a bandana :)
Although it's not the first time I've visited...
I remember waaay back a few years ago finding the site for the first time, back when my hair was at the awkward phase. Well I toughed that part out by using some terrible junk in my hair. My senior class pictures and cap/gown pic in the yearbook are of me with awkward-looking hair, but that's how it goes. The photo of me taking my diploma from the principal, taken 1 year later (they did our senior pics the summer before 12th grade began) shows me with almost long hair and a beard.
Now here it is a little over 2 years later and I just had my first haircut in 5 years, to even up the back and remove my really bad split ends (I made that decision myself because even I thought it looked bad). I had only an inch taken off all around and maybe 3 on the back, so right now I have the ideal lower-back length hair.
I got the "hey, get a haircut!" thing once from a passing pickup truck while I was waiting to cross the street at a redlight in front of my college.. I didn't find myself offended because they just kept driving instead of doing something about it.
I did start learning to play bass guitar a year or two after I began growing my hair, and then later 6 and 7 string electric guitar, so I guess I fit that stereotype.
My best friends know me and know my hair, and they would be almost as upset as I would be if I were to lose it. Some other friends have suggested that I cut it, I hope they were just joking. I rejoined my old karate class and I'm also studying Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and it definitely does require extra effort to restrain long hair in martial arts training (I'm going for the initial ponytail, braid the tail and secure at the bottom with a small band. thinking of going with the bandana soon). But there's no way I could just get rid of it. It goes back to the attitude most men have who just go get their hair buzzed or clipped at the barber every couple of weeks; they treat it like a change of t-shirts. This stuff has been on my head since I was 14 or 15 and it's not going anywhere except by the grace of male pattern baldness.
How's that for a long hair success story? Chicks do dig the hair, by the way. If you're at that weird phase just hang on and bite the bullet, it will work out for you eventually.
I agree. Growing long hair takes much time and patience. You have the attitude of a REAL longhair. Keep it up , buddy.
Brazilian Jujitsu? now that sounds interesting. I bet you could crack me into tiny pieces :)
Your story is inspiring and the hair seem to have grown deep into your personality. Remembering my last haircut with horror it felt like loosing a part of yourself and haven't had it cut ever since. Isn't ponytails a fairly common thing in martial arts?
