Hair

Everyone is born with hair on their head. For some, it's a no-brainer to just have a naturally 'good head of hair'...for others, like me...it's a lifelong struggle.
You must have heard of 'Good Hair Days' when your hair is in excellent shape, and you're feeling good because of it, and the opposite of course is the Bad Hair Days....when you feel self-conscious and out of sorts, because your hair just looks bad or awkward. I remember the 'Dorothy Hamill' cuts, the 'Farrah' cuts..and those were good haircuts, for what they were worth at the time, and it made them look cute.... The guys just had long hair...or bad hair, but then they could always go to Supercuts, and get a disco haircut...
I suppose...and I don't want to sound too sexist here...that it affects women more than men, in that visceral way...but I am here to tell you that it has truly affected me too, I'm not immune.
On my mom's side, all of the men went bald, or at least lost their hair by the time they were in their 50's.
On my Dad's side, they all kept a full head of hair...
When I was a kid, my dad insisted on smearing Vitalis all through my head and he combed it himself...Back...he had the same haircut his whole life.
When I was a teenager every guy had 'long hair' so I did too, and it looked like crap (just look at any high school yearbook in the 70's and you'll see what I mean).
When I went to college my hair had gotten longer and I would blow-dry it...to straighten it...then one day after swimming I noticed it would dry up in ringlets, and at the time I thought it was cool. My hair became my Lion's Mane.
When I was in my 30's I noticed a change...Oh No!
My hair was getting thinner in the front, at first it was no big deal, but then I began to freak out as I was definitely going bald. I would run my hand through the top of my head, and the hairs would come out with fragility and ease...then I would do the same to the back of my head, and those hairs were still sturdy.
I used to panic...I would try to comb forward the hair I had left. And as less and less hairs came forward, the more self-conscious I would become. Then in about 1998 I went to an old-fashioned barber and got old-fashioned haircut...that set me right...the haircuts of old-fashioned barbers can still make me look clean cut.
Since then I have lamented my hair loss...'Male Pattern Baldness' they call it....though, I have accepted it. I will never do anything as cheesy as get a 'hair-weave' or get a rug or anything like that...and I'm definitely not ready for the Shaved Head thing...oh no. I miss my mane...
Though I do need to get good haircuts, to preserve what I got left...
though I do miss my mane...