A thought

What If everyone were bald? Cosmetically, we’d lose a valuable part of ourselves that makes up a majority of our self esteem, and there would be nothing to frame our faces. Socially, we would have a much harder time distinguishing one another in a crowd - often we see a person’s hairstyle before we see their face. We’d lose some protection from the elements, too; on a sunny day we’d run the risk of sunburn, and on a cold day we’d lose a lot more body heat without the wonderful insulator that is hair. Thinking about it holistically, it’d be impossible to give hair meaning. We wouldn’t have a hair-product industry that tries to peddle us organic shampoo and conditioner, models wouldn’t highlight the latest hairstyles on the catwalk, and we wouldn’t make fun of people with receding hairlines or bad hair days. In fact, we wouldn’t have something that we use to judge each other with if nobody had hair anymore.

How would you feel if you lost all your hair? How would you see yourself and how do you think other people would see you? How would you view your best friend if he or she also lost all their hair. How would you view your parents or teachers if THEY were bald? Think about it.

That which we take pride in often comes at the expense of others. For every person with beautiful hair there are five people that are so-so or just downright ugly. This fact divides us between the pretty and the not-pretty. Think about it.