Hair growing as a discipline.

• Hair growing as a discipline.
  

  

  That ''Ball'' Guy

  
  

  Just thought I'd share something that I've come to appreciate:

  When I first started growing my hair (2 years ago on the first week of Oct.) I would obsess about my hair, loving the curls but hating the fact that it took it so much time to look any kind of long (being 6'4" doesn't help either) Then one day it struck me. If hair grew really fast (like 3-5 inches per month) it wouldn't be nearly as great an achievment to grow it out to any great length like it is now. Not to mention the (relative) leaps and bounds that I've grown intellectually and spiritually, which would be stinted with a boosted growth rate.

  I started to approach the long hair growing process as a discipline, like fasting or meditation, where each time I was tempted to obsess over my hair I would focus on something else of real worth.

  So 22 months into the process my hair is just over 11 inches long (started from almost a buzzcut) and it would not have grown one iota faster if I had been constantly worrying about it. In fact, it probably would have grown slower due to hypertension and other stress related conditions.

  So my conclusion 22 months into the experiment?: Love your hair, whatever its condition (curly, wavy, straight, flat, thin, thick, whatever), whatever its growth rate; it is YOUR hair, and it is therefore worth growing as it is.

  Good luck and stay strong.

  Ball

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  • It does require discipline
    

    

    EdG

    
    

    And it's not easy.
    Ed

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    • Re: It does require discipline
      

      

      Tonez

      
      

      Ditto

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    Insane Dwayne

    
    

    Hey Kevin, I know what you mean about the height when it comes to your hair. I am 6'5, but your hair is curly. Look at your hair this way. Look how big your hair is getting, and decide if it looks long to you or not. I seen a pic where you had it in a Ponytail, and it looked longer like that. My friend chris had long curly hair like yours and he always had it tied back. That is my words of wisdom :)

    PS: In your avatar, You look like a former WWE Wrestler "Raven" lol I just can't help but see the resemblence

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    Resonance

    
    

    A valuable post - these are the things I often want to tell people when they ask why I've grown my hair, but usually don't because it's not something that can be easily understood from the outside.

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    Justin

    
    

    Love your hair, whatever its condition (curly, wavy, straight, flat, thin, thick, whatever), whatever its growth rate; it is YOUR hair, and it is therefore worth growing as it is.

    So well put.................and ever so true!

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