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I hope that some of you guys out there will experience some when your hair...
gets fully into the LongHair Stage.
One thing you can probably look forward to as you leave the Awkward Stage® is maybe...
a bit more respect?!
When my hair was in that NO MAN's Land, people just didn't know HOW
to 'react' to me OR...
to my HAIR.
But now that my hair is definitely into the long stage, most folks
seem more COMFORTABLE with it...
because at least NOW they KNOW I am way beyond just 'missing haircuts'...
or maybe the "When will he get his haircut?"
This NEW 'RESPECT' might just be something that I am experiencing...
and maybe others here will have reactions that are very DIFFERENT from mine.
It would be fascinating, to say the least, if some of you could share...
some of YOUR "REACTIONS-FROM-PEOPLE" STORIES!
I was in Manchester recently (Northern England) and I met a young Irish lady (damn... that accent) called Michelle. We were talking about hair, which is the usual ice-breaker whenever I meet new people, and I was saying how some girls don't seem to realise why long hair can be so important to someone who has been having the chop for most of his/her life. In a nutshell, I was saying people who've had long hair since a very young age tend to take it for granted.
I was surprised and glad to hear Michelle say, "I don't take it for granted at all, I love it." It was great to hear even those few words, because I so rarely meet people who seem to know where I'm coming from.