If you followed me back in my Twitter days, you might remember how long my hair used to be whenever I shared a picture or some video of me bouldering for example.
In case you don’t, you’ll just have to believe me for now.
In fact, I once let my sister straighten my hair with some sort of steam-powered hair straightener (I think she called it a steam pod but don’t ask me about that type of stuff, I know nothing about it at all). Anyway, I still have a picture of how I looked back then and I’m not joking when I say my hair was so long it went all the way to my nipples and beyond (you’re welcome for making you think about my nipples by the way).
That said, this was when my hair was at my longest—I also exclusively walked around with a low-hanging man bun at that time (strange times those years were).
As of late, my hair was quite a bit shorter, but still quite long for men's standards.
Anyway, that’s a lot of context just to make you understand the drastic difference when I tell you I completely shaved my head to the point of almost going bald (my mother would probably have gotten a heart attack if I did, in fact, go completely bald).
The running joke used to be that my everyday “style” was that of an intellectual hobo—whatever that looks like in your mind.
Nowadays, I’ve been told I resemble Justin Timberlake's appearance in the movie ‘In Time’.
A drastic change to say the least.
And yet, it took me no longer than a few hours to go “Oh that’s what I look like almost bald, alright that’s nice.” and roll with it as if nothing even happened.
But that’s not at all how the events leading up to me getting an incredibly short buzz cut went.
You see, while not that serious and somewhat half-jokingly, I’ve had the idea to get a buzz cut for probably over 6 months, potentially even longer than a year (I can’t remember when I first thought about it, but it’s been a while).
Whether it’s fear, uncertainty, doubt, or something else that kept me from doing so, I can’t actually tell (probably a combination of all of the above), but the most important part is realizing how much I ‘suffered’ (constantly thinking about it, doubting the decision, and never going through with it) and how much time I wasted that way.
And for what?
Worst case scenario, I don’t like it and it just grows back, no big deal really.
Now, this might just be a silly little story for you, however it’s about much more than just “some hair”.
In fact, I’m guessing that this story will hit close to home to you in some way, shape, or form. I can almost guarantee there’s been something in your life or something on your mind that you’ve been thinking about, wondering whether to go through with it or not. Something you have many, many doubts about, even though, when it comes down to it, relatively little bad can ever happen (especially considering nothing bad ever happens to a writer), and in most cases, something you’ll be immediately glad you did afterward, yet you’ve been making yourself suffer immensely for far too long.
Something else.
How often have you procrastinated doing a task you really didn’t want to do for days, weeks, or potentially even months, yet when you finally got to it didn’t take longer than 5 to 10 minutes to complete and be done with for good?
Yeah…
Nothing to feel bad about though. We’ve all been there. Nobody is special when it comes to these types of experiences. Sometimes it’s as if we’re all living the same lives just in different times and places.
If there’s one thing to take away from this email, it’s to just get on with it and shave your head, because who knows, you might really end up enjoying it…
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