A Vain Experience Many Would Love to Have
The other day, as I was brushing my hair, I noticed my hair is getting darker. It appears the gray is receding and the brown returning. I thought – can that be? I’ve been keeping an eye on it ever since and I think it’s true – my hair is getting darker.
It’s funny because it seems this is more challenging to me than the larger forehead over the years, or the thinning spot at the back, or the gray itself. I’ve never been very concerned with my hair since I was twenty and it was down to my shoulders and bleached blonde by the Caribbean sun.
But here it is getting darker. I think it must be the result of one of the new supplements I’m taking or that little dab of Paul Mitchell’s Round Trip which I started using a few weeks ago to keep things a little bit under control.
As I explored my concerns about my hair’s returning youth, I discovered an interesting spin on vanity – kind of a vain negative vanity. I’m concerned that others will think I’m coloring my hair and thus vain. I’ve always wondered about men that color their hair or do those elaborate comb-overs. To me, those guys are waving a big flag of insecurity and most of them look a little funny if not ridiculous – in my humble vain opinion.
What a weird feeling to be concerned about people thinking I’m vain, when I’m not. But, then again, this experience seems to be revealing that I am.
What a way to start a new year – my vanity fair with hair!
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4 responses to “Vanity Fair Hair”
Let’s see a pic, o vain one!
I am trying to mend my ways as a breaker of hearts. How’s that for vanity???!!!
Ah, John, that’s what I love about you. You’ve been trying to mend this way for years, have you not? It is just in your nature to break one heart after another! š
Change is tough especially when I so enjoy my wicked ways!
When I contemplate “broken heart,” I always think of Rumi and the heart’s devastation resulting from separation from True Nature.