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Sorry about the wordyness, felt I had to give some backstory first
To date, only 5 other people in my chruch have had long hair:
2 men, and 3 women
-The men have never had their hair longer then armpit length
-Unfortunately that seems to be what passes for long on a man in my area, I think I can still count one one hand the amount of men I've ever seen (in person) with anywhere-near waist length hair & Im pretty sure that they were all tourists
-All three women have had their hair reach their waist at some point since I met them
-2 of the women went strait from wasit length to above-shoulder lengths, although one has since grown thiers back out to armpit length
But there is still hope:
-the other woman still has waist length (or longer) hair
-the other man has a young son or grandson that is also growing their hair out
Now to get to the point:
All of this has gotten me thinking, and I've come to a decision.
I'm coming up on 2 years without a haircut, and although I'm really happy with the overall condition of my hair, its got to many noticeably different lengths, and even the longest sections still look & feel way too short to me.
So I'm going wait until my 3 years, then I'm either going to trim it back just enough to even out the length & keep it that length for a while, or go strait to growing it out to its terminl length & let it stay that lenth for as long as there are hairs on my head.
I honestly have no idea which way I'm going to go just yet. But one thing I do know, is that I'm never cutting my hair short again! My hair is manageable for the first time in my life.
Hi ArendJK,
Making an inner commitment to anything, including to having long hair, is a good thing -- that's what happened to me shortly after I impulsively cut off my long hair to short back in Y2K: once I fully realized what a devastating mistake I'd made, I knew in my heart that I never wanted to have short hair ever again, and that I had learned my lesson that I wanted to be a longhair for life... That experience was almost 12 years ago (the date of the short haircut being on the first day of summer of 2000), and that inner commitment has resulted in the hair length that I have today...
"Onward & Downward!"
- Ken in San Francisco