To Cut Or Not to cut

After thinking for some time now about whether to cut my hair and how much should I cut if I really decide to cut, I finally had a hair cut this tuesday. Thats after 8 months and 11 days. Can't recall the exact hours though :-). Some friends were for my long hair, saying since you are a 'rock' fan ( which i'm seriously not. I'm more into alternative types, according to my roomie who has good knowledge of all these genres of music), you hair should justify it. While the other clan said that I was in a state of deplorable mess. My cousin Vivek in Mumbai actually took printouts of my pictures, which i shared on yahoo photos, to show it to all our relatives who would come for his marriage celebrations in a couple of days. He said that I was looking ( well to say the truth, that my hair was) like Aamir Khan in the movie "The Rising". Whether it was meant to be a compliment, only he knows. But he did add that u've become a punk after going to America and 'tu badal gaya re'. I guess I would never be able to grow my hair that long now...but my hair wasn't growing straight as it should be, if it is long. It was getting too curly, and i was bored of getting it of my ears like girls do all the time. And i didn't have money to get some cool hairstyle. Now I understand why girls fret about their hair all their life....I have first hand experience...

Another peculiar reaction that u get from ppl when u have a haircut after a long time is that strange look and the most stupid question: "Did you have a haircut?" I really wanted to say: "No dude.. My hair just decided to shed off last night!!" or "it got entangled in the hair dryer and so I had to cut it!!". I mean come on...can't u see that I've had a haircut. I am tired of acutally answering that yes, I've had a haircut; I didn't lose them in some natural disaster.

Boy, I never knew that my hair was drawing so much attention. And usually when something catches the public eye, it is prone to negative criticism. Well, whatever.....as of now, I miss my curls...