“It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.” It really is.
Familiarity can sometimes lead to complacency if we don’t regard it. I recently had my locs cut. There were practical reasons for doing so but I tend to be a layered guy so there were allegorical reasons as well.
I initially loc’d my hair with the intention of only doing it for 1 year. I wanted to love myself and the me in the mirror – unfettered. It worked. I learned to embrace and love all of the things about me that God made.
4 years later, I can move on. I’m not attached to any material thing and I’m not attached to a look. In 2006, India.Arie said it best when she sang, “I am not my hair, I am not this skin, I am a soul that lives within.” In my humble opinion, that is a true mark of maturity.
Micheline J says:
Love it! very well said.
Tricia B says:
Beautiful! Very profound… Enjoyed the post! Thanks… Thanks for sharing…
Sandra J says:
I enjoy reading your blog. I haven’t even met you but feel like I know you. Very inspirational. Keep it up.
Kris G says:
I tried something similar a while back… let my hair grow out, facial hair run wild… wasn’t as successful as you… then I tried the radical change of switching to a dress shirt and tie daily… people just thought I was nuts. I probably was. And is it wrong that every time I hear “It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday” I think of that In Living Color sketch that mocked BoysIIMen? (My backup singers? Oh, it’s ON now…)