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Avoiding Active/Outdoor Life
I suppose if one is afraid to try anything new due to reasons like tiltable wigs, social insecurity, or irrational fears (like bridges and highways, insane clowns or kapusta festivals), then one might avoid all sorts of open-air, windy, or active endeavors, and stay safe with indoor hobbies. (ME? Reading, talking, art, music, movies, study, work). As a wearer of elastic-held wigs (caps too hot in California), I can understand the trade-offs that I have made in life.
You gals who are brave enough to "go without" could explore a lot more activities and locales, especially in sports, than I did once I lost my hair and went to wigs. You also gained travel, competitions, awards, teammates, health, press, jokes and vocabulary related to sports. My question is, how did you find the acceptance level for relationships (friends, other) change when you moved from hiding to aerodynamic or vice versa? Where, and with whom, have you been the most comfortable? Individually, in pairs, in teams or groups? Is there a mentality, lifestyle or culture better suited to acceptance between people involved in outside vs those who concentrate on inside activities? What did you lose or gain?
I know my answer. What is yours?
You gals who are brave enough to "go without" could explore a lot more activities and locales, especially in sports, than I did once I lost my hair and went to wigs. You also gained travel, competitions, awards, teammates, health, press, jokes and vocabulary related to sports. My question is, how did you find the acceptance level for relationships (friends, other) change when you moved from hiding to aerodynamic or vice versa? Where, and with whom, have you been the most comfortable? Individually, in pairs, in teams or groups? Is there a mentality, lifestyle or culture better suited to acceptance between people involved in outside vs those who concentrate on inside activities? What did you lose or gain?
I know my answer. What is yours?
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Comment by Mary on August 1, 2010 at 12:24pm
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Life is to Live! Sounds great, TG!!! I always say that dancing is the most fun you can have with clothes on. ( ;-)
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But, of course!
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Comment by Norm on August 2, 2010 at 7:31am
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Now look here, Mary and TG..... is there something going on that we should know about??? Jacuzzis?? Bubble baths??? With clothes on???? Ooer....
Post pix on here. Immediately!!! ;)
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Comment by Tallgirl on August 2, 2010 at 9:05am
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Norm, what WILL I do with you? Sigh.
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I'll send a list....
.... but don't worry - being over a certain age, it doesn't involve removal of any items of clothing... wouldn't want to scare anyone, would we?? ;)
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Monopoly, Uno, Checkers, Poker, Chess...Oh, BEHAVE!!! ;)
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BEHAVE? Hmmm.... we don't have that one here in the UK... doesn't sound like much fun from the title! Or is it somewhere that posh bees live? :)
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Now we are just getting silly. Seriously, all ages have to consider what activities, people, sports vocabulary, athletic celebrations and hobbies (of self and significant others, or with kids) might change due to fear of wig slippage or taunting/stares. It can hamper some dating possibilities, family outings, party or work conversations, etc. if one is no longer "in the know" about sports after many years. The sum of my limited sports talk is at Olympic times or when teaching P.E. I will tell you that I most REMEMBER times I have been coerced to do something out of my comfort/experience zone (and I actually had fun...except for the skiing), because it is so unique to my world since wearing wigs. Hiking, skiing, fishing, bowling, volleyball, college baseball games with friends, swimming in Lake Michigan, bodysurfing in the Pacific Ocean...all stand out to me (but these were done during the haired years). The people I did these things with are all far away, physically and socially, so I do not get to discuss the activities anymore. Thank goodness for the everlasting photos! So...would these things happen now? I don't know.
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Ah...dancing last month to '60s songs....with a teased blond wig and mini-dress. What a blast! That, we can do!
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