Letting Go of My Hair

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Hey Friend, one last thing on Dennis Rodman from last week.

He changed his hair more than any other player in history.

Sometimes even at halftime!!

At the start of the second half he reemerged with leopard print, polka dots, neon green, fire‑engine red, puzzle‑piece patterns, and full‑scalp murals 🎨 

Dennis Rodman didn’t just change his hair » he announced himself.

Each shift was a deliberate signal: I’m here, I’m different, and I won’t be folded into your expectations. 

I wish I could do that.

So instead of Rodman’s hair, this one’s about mine.

Without any further ado, here’s is a picture of the top of my head:

Recently I was paying the cashier at Target, and he says, “You know buddy you should buzz your hair. It’s time to let go.”

Wow. This was unusual. I just met him. And he wasn’t balding. No ‘balding club connection’.

That’s like a skinny cashier telling the customer: ‘Hey you should really lose some weight’.

Bit weird.

I’ve been taking Propecia for almost 20 years to keep what I have. Maybe it was time.

Time to ‘let go’.

Hmm. What does it mean to let go?

I put the groceries in the car and sifted the sparse hair strands in the visor mirror.

I took out my phone and wrote down men I thought were attractive, confident, and bald. Yeah, I could be like them, this wouldn’t be so bad!

John Travolta’s decades of hiding baldness, his journey from iconic Grease Lightening, to toupees, to bald intrigued me.

The more I visualized my new look » the more I envisioned people digging the ‘new me’👨‍🦲💪 

Yeah, then I found a great Reddit group of bald people, men and women, who share their before and after, and everyone votes if you should ‘let it go’.

Maybe it was an illusion . . . yeah . . . I could buzz my head, hit the gym, get a rustic tough guy look — you could be bald and attractive 🤯 

I transcended the illusion!

I paused. Wait. Wait.

If having a full head of hair to be attractive is just an illusion, then wouldn’t it be equally true, just another social construct, that buzzing my hair to fit this other construct was just as slippery?

Friend, could letting go, be doing nothing?

I closed the mirror and flipped up the visor. That Target cashier was right. I did need to ‘let go’.

My question for us:

I know I need to let go, but of what??

Tell me what you think I should do here.

Mind 🤯 

Myth: Cutting your hair makes it grow faster.

Truth: Hair growth happens at the root, under the scalp, and trimming the ends doesn’t change the biological speed of that process.

Freshly cut ends are blunt, so hair looks thicker and healthier, which creates the illusion of faster growth.

🌱 What actually controls hair growth speed

• Genetics

• Hormones

• Stress levels

• Nutrition

• Overall scalp health

Soul ⚡️ 

🎶 Don't let them in, don't let them see

Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know

Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all

It's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I'm free

Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn 🎵 

—Let It Go (song) Frozen

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