Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Haircut
I don't get a haircut very often. It had been two months, and my hair had gotten rather long. I had a professional barber haircut. I thought that I looked rather spiffy. I walked around for two days at church and in the office, and no one said anything. From this I surmise two things: I am vain. I am invisible, the anonymous person. I cannot do much about being invisible. If I am not noticed, I need acceptance. Spiritual masters often say we should be "nothing" or we are "nothing." Buddha says we are dung heaps. I can work on the vanity part. So, being unnoticed is a grace for it reveals a fault upon which I can work. Do you try to find the positive in being invisible? We are never nobody.
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It's cause you have a great smile. Most of us can't see past your smile and happy eyes to the hair beyond.
ReplyDeleteI am originally from Italy and there each time I had an haircut, everybody I met said something. They even said things such as they did not like my practically-invisible-in-between-my-shoes-and-long-pants socks. In Boulder, nobody said anything. Ever. Shocking socks or shocking haircuts (or lack of thereof). And I am talking of a similar, friendly work environments in a research center, in both cases. With people I am equally acquaintanced with. Either American politeness is to mind your own business, or maybe Americans thing most important things than haircuts and colors of the sock. I like both options, but the second more!
ReplyDeleteIf you want comments about your haircut (or color of your socks), go visit the Pope, get friend with people in Rome, and you'll see how desperate you'll become when every single person you know will notice and comment.
But as the other person said, maybe even in Rome they will like your gentle smile and eyes.
I noticed your hair cut. I think the Motherly types could say "Hey you look good. " Other ladies cannot. You look like this actor who plays a crazy guy on the Good Wife. Maybe it is called the Kennedy Cut. Hope you miss us in Florida. Is that vanity ?
ReplyDeleteWhen I get my hair curled I get plenty of compliments. Both my parents had great hair. So I am lucky. I pass on my compliments to the hair stylists (who are students). and they deserve the credit. See, everyone wins! I am grateful!
ReplyDeleteI once read that a really great haircut has imperceptible. It was supposed to just blend in with your past haircuts. I have two kinds of haircuts ~keep it the same or dramatic change.
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