Role of Hair

In listening to the interview with Neal Lester and reading the passages regarding the importance of hair, I discovered a new meaning to hair. I always thought that hair was nothing important, partly because I never liked my own hair. It was certainly something that I noticed as a child but it was never anything that I thought was very important. Growing up, I was not very picky about my hair cuts and I normally got a straight up bowl but all the way through elementary school. I remember growing up and having my brother grow his hair out really long. He and my neighbor both did it together and many of them often referred to them as the Hansen brothers who, at the time, has copyrighted to long blonde hair style. So i knew growing up how quickly hair could lead people to make assumptions because everywhere I went with my brother it was the first thing that people would say to him. I never wanted to have my hair so recognizable that it was the one thing that people recognized me by. I finally moved on past the bowl cut and went to a more typical, short hair cut. It was an interesting time for me because I partly wanted to have something unique about my hair but I did not want it to be excessive like my brothers. It was at this time that i realized just how important hair is and the power it has on how we are seen.