A long stint of trial, patience and hard work but were the efforts
all worth it? You’ll have to read on till the end of this post in order to get
the answer. I am talking about my hair and the amount of efforts it has
demanded of me to bring them up right. This might be the first time in my life
(another first!) when I have thought of cultivating this natural harvest to the
extent it happily could and I dare say it has brought out the best in my behavior.
How? Ohkay.
I, now, feel as if, being a child psychologist, I am writing
the best of parenting techniques parents should practice but I must concede
growing your hair right to see them how exactly you’ve wanted them to be is no
way a lesser job. I have seen myself go through a lot of behavioral changes in
order to accommodate the pain: tears, worries, fears, anticipations and,
finally, bliss that growing my hair right has brought along. I confess I am now
more patient with them falling and have learnt how to toss the blame on to the environment
- you have to control your tears when you see them going down the drain or
leaving their home to elope with the comb – great deal of perseverance, indeed.
You have to make friends with the fact that some seasons are there in existence
because they have some number targets of hair strands they have to register as fallen before they bid adieu to that place.
I get a feeling that I have become an erudite “hair”sitter,
capable of writing a book on good “hair”sitting (I would love to call it that
because I hate to repeat what I’ve said before). I must have read thousands of
magazines and blogs online talking about the best hair care tips by everyone
from amateurs to professionals – I had a patient ear for everyone. One side-effect
of this whole activity was that a lot of times, I was directed to some fabulous
recipe websites from these blogs; there was so much food to be applied on
either hair or scalp being talked about that I finally gave up on covering my
head with them and thought of becoming an unrepentant sinner indulging herself
in gluttony J
Anyway, one year of persistent determination, eating right,
oiling my hair twice a week, taking multi-vitamin supplements, working out
regularly, combing with utmost care, breathing right, burping less, blogging
more, praying even more, turning a blind eye to all the ‘good’ things in the
world, watching lesser television, drawing constellations on assumed-to-be
starry nights, bitching less, smiling to all the relatives, saying yes and all
the ‘sane’ stuff those blogs could ask me to do - I have done IT ALL; some tips
worked, others were fun to try; some gave good results while a few reassured
there’s more to life than long, healthy hair. Finally, here I am, with THE results.
I am sharing a few pictures with y’all – a few experiments I have done, now
that I have learned to tame my hair. While I prepare myself for my first
trimming session in all this time, I pray to God that I don’t return with a bad
face and a back-on-track behavior (to hell with perseverance, I want them to stay for long!) J
3 comments:
Oh wow! Cheena! All this is your hair! You have tamed it really well :)
Great hairstyles!
lol...
First loved your hair and i must say u did after all manage to tame ur mane. Kudos to that.
Now lemme share mine...my mom she had something very interesting to say when someone pointed out her grey hairs to her. This is what she said, '' You see this is not age related, all this geyser water...well it has bleached my hair" hahahaha...can u believe it...well we women will come out with fantastic excuses for anything that concerns our skin/ hair or even adipose.
i did a post too long time back on hair...just in case u r interested
http://shivanidiwani64.blogspot.in/2012/05/its-my-hair.html
loved ur post...the narration...the pics and ur hair. :)
Thank you so much, girls, for your lovely comments. I really appreciate these.
@Shivani: I loved your post, too! I am already looking forward to my next read there :)
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