chen bao jun
April 26th, 2014, 08:25 PM
I have been thinking, as I read what people write here on LHC about their hair, how comparison screws many of us up.
Me and my sister are both well over 50 years old. She comes to me recently and informs me that she does not have thin hair. Apparently, she always thought she did. No one else thought so. However she decided that her hair must be thin during our childhood while watching the war that my mother waged with MY hair, which is not just thick but crazy thick and which mom had no idea how to handle, leaving us both in tears many many mornings (both me and mom) and ending with mom starting to have my hair straightened when I was 8 years old (very uncommon thing to do back then) because she was so fed up with the combs that broke in it, the brush handles that snapped, the barrettes that it ate and just the general total misery. Apparently, because mom could comb my sister's hair without drama and get her out to school, my sister decided that something was wrong with HER hair. Mom just was not saying anything about her hair because it wasn't a problem; she has beautiful hair and its easy to care for, which made mom happy.
and I spent a lot of my young adulthood being jealous of my sister because HER hair always looked perfect while mine was all over the place. yes, every one that mentioned my hair to me said, wow, its so thick. But everyone that mentioned her hair to her always said, It looks so nice.
and apparently hairdressers and others who have taken care of her hair for the past fifty years and haven't ever met me, always tell her that her hair is thick. Because it IS.
so she thought it was time that I realized that she also has thick hair, although I always knew that, apparently she was the only one who didn't know it. Because obviously we are in a competition. I guess she wants to break combs, too?
We humans are just really, really strange.
ETA: By the way, my 6 ft 4 inch brother is also known everywhere as the 'short one'. Because my other brother is 6 ft. 6. Same thing.
Me and my sister are both well over 50 years old. She comes to me recently and informs me that she does not have thin hair. Apparently, she always thought she did. No one else thought so. However she decided that her hair must be thin during our childhood while watching the war that my mother waged with MY hair, which is not just thick but crazy thick and which mom had no idea how to handle, leaving us both in tears many many mornings (both me and mom) and ending with mom starting to have my hair straightened when I was 8 years old (very uncommon thing to do back then) because she was so fed up with the combs that broke in it, the brush handles that snapped, the barrettes that it ate and just the general total misery. Apparently, because mom could comb my sister's hair without drama and get her out to school, my sister decided that something was wrong with HER hair. Mom just was not saying anything about her hair because it wasn't a problem; she has beautiful hair and its easy to care for, which made mom happy.
and I spent a lot of my young adulthood being jealous of my sister because HER hair always looked perfect while mine was all over the place. yes, every one that mentioned my hair to me said, wow, its so thick. But everyone that mentioned her hair to her always said, It looks so nice.
and apparently hairdressers and others who have taken care of her hair for the past fifty years and haven't ever met me, always tell her that her hair is thick. Because it IS.
so she thought it was time that I realized that she also has thick hair, although I always knew that, apparently she was the only one who didn't know it. Because obviously we are in a competition. I guess she wants to break combs, too?
We humans are just really, really strange.
ETA: By the way, my 6 ft 4 inch brother is also known everywhere as the 'short one'. Because my other brother is 6 ft. 6. Same thing.