I've been growing my hair for about three years to donate to Locks of Love. I was planning on doing this in January and I showed pictures of what I thought it might look to my stylist tonight. Well, after having patience for three years, tonight I made an impulse decision and went for it and cut my hair off, roughly 14 inches.
This was something I had wanted to do for a long time but I had the patience to stick with it to get it to the necessary length to donate. Then three years ago (roughly, it is my story here) when my husband asked me to marry him I knew I could do this and marry him too.
For the past three years my husband has had to tolerate me asking him to look at females with short hair. It's not always a bad thing for a wife or girlfriend to ask her guy to look at other females but comparing her hairstyle and trying to determine what it would look like on their girl is normally not a guy's specialty.
I have also met many people during this time that have either donated their hair or have had a family member that have donated. If you are thinking of doing it or in the process of growing your hair to donate, I say keep going. There are many days that it seems like it will not grow or it will take forever but when your stylist makes that big cut and you can hold your long ponytail with your cute new style it will be worth it knowing you've done something small to make a big difference.
This is just one small thing that can be done to make a difference in someone's life with very little effort. I gave up choosing my hairstyle for a short time, but really, what is that in the scheme of something larger when my hair will grow back and I can always change how I look in other ways to express who I am? More importantly, who I am should be expressed by how I live, what I do to affect others, how I treat others, not what I look like or my current hairstyle. This is my reflection as I have a much lighter head, literally.
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