hey guys,
I mean to write this last night because I was noticing something in terms of loc journeys. People seem to be great about documenting that first year of growth and change and what it is like to go from mostly loose natural hair to mostly cultivated locs. But after that year the gaps widen or the bloggers/vloggers just vanish. I think the same thing has happened with some of the natural hair bloggers I used to stalk as well. I mean life happens and we redirect our energy elsewhere so I get it but it made me sad. These folks become part of my mental extended family with whom I can vent about this one thing with and maybe that's the issue. We only have that one thing in common so when life happens there's nothing to share or feel like there's a community to lean on.
Work friends are fascinated with my hair change BUT they can't really walk me through it as I am the only person at work with locs right now. Someone at work wants to get locs but feels she's at least a decade away from that. Now mind you I can't knock her because I only finally went for it about 20 years after I initially thought I would get them. That was mostly because I didn't want to look exactly like my mentor more than I already did but now I'll be the one with the gray locs while color has not abandoned her. I'm really enjoying the process and the ups and downs and I am really feeling like this is the year of long awaited changes for me.
Just gotta get back to the gym.
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