How to Use Your Hair

Dear Upa,
                I love your new hair. I also loved your old hair. I love how you can get any haircut, and still look good and get away with it. I think it's about confidence, or about not giving a shit. Or both.

Now, I don't know if I can get away with just anything. I'm pretty sure I can't though. I don't remember deciding to grow my hair out, it sort of just happened and then before I knew it people started telling me stuff like "Wow, your hair is so long!" and complimenting it a whole lot and getting emotionally invested in it. You remember when people used to take my plait and smell it and stuff? Once one of our class mates brought a ruler out and started measuring how long my plait was. Some person would count how many knots are in the plait and some would also start braiding it themselves. You know I'm not exaggerating.

My hair is probably the first thing that made me feel more confident about myself. It wasn't because of the validation other people gave me, it was because of how much I liked the feeling of just having long hair. It was so satisfying.

Hair (or no hair) is so important. It can be used as a medium of expression for who you are. I'm glad you're using yours so well.

As for me, most of the time I don't even realise that I supposedly have long hair. The times I do, like when I'm shampooing it or combing it and getting annoyed over how much of it there is, I think about cutting it short and then realise that out of all the attached people that will kill me if I cut my hair, it's probably me that's the most attached to it.

Also, exams suck.

Bye for now,
Aditi.