Your hair is like an old friend that you have grown up with and taken care of. You have been through good times and bad times with it hanging around. You have laughed and cried with it. You have made sure it was clean and presentable on a daily basis. You loved it at times and hated it others. At times you wished it would never change and at other times wished it was completely different. You have flaunted it, been proud of it and drawn attention to it. Over the years you probably pushed it, pulled it, teased it, praised it, abused it, let it grow, cut it off, told it what to do and then turned around and told it what not to do. BUT one thing is for certain… when it went away you begged it to come back. You cried because you missed it. You just knew you couldn’t live without it. You mourned the loss of it like the death of a loved one. AND eventually you got used to not having it around. You’ll never get over the loss of it but your life does go on. You’ll never feel quite the same but what’s done is done. All you can do is take the loss of it for what it’s worth to you, apply the lessons learned from that to other emotional situations in your life and become a more confident person because old friends do not define you. You are still a valuable person with or without an “old friend that you grew up with”.