*GASP* The one thing I thought wouldn't change for awhile, lol. Nice poetic/attempt-at-epicness speech...But it seems incomplete with out pics sadly:P

Upload a picture somewhere; I want to see!

I had a haircut yesterday, too. Your post about the experience is a bit more philosophical than mine.

It is funny how your hairstyles can come to symbolise so much, especially if you've had it for a very long time. My hair grows quickly, and with a couple brief exceptions (the summer after second grade; my fifth grade year), I've always kept it past shoulder length. Especially during high school and early college, my hair was extremely long.

Towards the beginning of my junior year, I had it all cut off at my ears—and a few months later, trimmed even shorter. It was liberating—there was this incredible mental sense of starting afresh. I became more outgoing (it's a relative term), made a lot of new friends, and found myself feeling happier and more adventurous.

Now obviously, the haircut was not the impetus for the personality shift. (If I hadn't been feeling adventurous beforehand, I never would have gone through with cutting all my hair off!) But to me, from a symbolism standpoint, it was an incredibly important experience. It helped me embrace a much-needed emotional growth spurt.

My hair is long again now (like I said, it grows fast), but I still appreciate what that haircut meant to me—even if it really was me doing the changing, not my hair.