A New Free Hobby: Growing my hair out again.

[ping-ping-clicka]

I know at my age I should have taken up golfing a long time ago.
please Don't remind me , again.

I have a new game to play with myself , another.
Give my recent health issues..... enhanced by aging, are progressing in an unsuspected manner.
I never suspected that this would be a phase in my life. Most of my life my body told me " this is never going to end.", this energy , virility, appetite, stamina, healing power is going to last forever. That feeling of endless boundless vitality was assured by how my body felt every day. It had nothing to do with confidence, self assurance, or anything other than how I felt in my body everyday with every breath that I took.
Some given that change is the only constant in the universe, things changed for me, jut like everybody else.
Now with my new perspective, my shrink reminds me your getting older or asks
Question: How old are you?
Answer: I'm 74 , well over 74 and a half.

Perhaps she asks because I'm befuddled by what's happening with my mind and body, oh right! I'm 74
Not 17 or 24 or 33 or 40, you are 74 BINGO!

new form of the lottery that I'm playing is simple, I know how long it takes to wear out a new pair of Birkenstocks and how long it takes for my hair to grow down to the middle of my back. I'm betting that I will wear through a new pair of Birkenstock and my hair will be to the middle of my back prior to shedding this mortal coil. I say shedding as in the way snakes shed. I'm hoping that we, or to be polite I am on my last go round. I was also betting that buying those two Epiphone guitars would still be in ship shape when go down for the dirt nap, same goes for exploring a new way of making noise with my new collection of preamps and guitars.
I might be right about this bet and I certainly could be wrong, hey it happens everyday , dude gets up drinks his coffee and tunes his guitar and fall of the music stool dead as a doornail.
The probability of survival to age 75 varied by income adequacy quintile.
Among men, the probability was 73% for those in the highest quintile and 50% for those in the lowest.

1950

65.6

71.1

 

[backporchmusic]

When people ask what I've been doing lately, I say "Letting my hair grow. It's been keeping me pretty busy."

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

I like gray pony tails. I have the tail, working on the gray. For the record, it has taken 4 years to grow from a 1/4" buzz cut to halfway down my back (2" below my nipples in the front).

 

[24 track]

I just cut off 13.5 inches off my head to donate to the cancer society just before Christmas, I may get one kick at that can before the grey hair sets in, a friend of mine did not recognize me with a shorter hair cut because I didnot look like a geriatric biker any more , LOL this was my 9th shearing for CCS ( Canadian Cancer Society) I encourage all youth to do this at least once , it costs nothing and it gives dignity to those beaten . ( that is priceless)

 

[brookdalebill]

Bunch of wise guys!
Hairy so and so’s.
Why I oughta’!
I’d let mine grow, if it only would.
Stupid hair!

 

[kuch]

Had my hair almost to my butt back in the 70's. One day I was playing tennis and said to myself "this gotta go".... and that was it, cut it off and never looked back. It's a hassle to take care of long hair and it's always above the collar for me....

 

[WRHB]

My hair reaches my waist……. My nose hair that is.

 

[Eddiebaby1]

I had the surf industry pony tail until the mid 90s when one friend showed me a photo from behind. The crop circle had started. Two days later I had short tidy hair.
Now I have a 2.5mm buzz cut according to my string height gauge.
Well in the bits where it still grows.

 

[teleplayr]

I'm 69 y.o. and my ponytail is down to my belt line.

I've thought about cutting a few inched off but just haven't gotten around to it.

 

[gimmeatele]

I am interested, always had mine shaved to the wood and have always envied somewhat those long flowing locks, I may put down the clippers and see what can be achieved.

 

[beatnik]

I am growing my hair out to do two experiments. 1) biological, what does it look like? Wavy and unruly. 2) sociological, how do people respond to me as a musician when I don’t look like their accountant. Since it’s been longish, people have come up asking for picks (probably waking up in the morning wondering who Jim Dunlop is) and generally complementing my playing. Both of those feel nice and keep me from cutting my hair.

 

[brookdalebill]

Mine keeps growing all the way out.

 

[Mjark]

No way do I want long hair again.

 

[memorex]

I keep my hair fairly short. That senior discount at Great Clips keeps sucking me back in.

 

[Pops_Caster]

Waiting for retirement, then I’ll try long hair again. Or maybe a buzz cut. No man bun, though, should I go long.

 

[rcole_sooner]

Buzz cut for me since the lockdown. Really got good at it, and don't see a need to pay for a cut again. This is my last weekend to be in my 50s.

I even let the top and beard grow out a bit over the Winter. Usually all buzzed off by 1st day of Spring.

 

[P Thought]

Mine keeps growing all the way out.

Mine's longer than ever on the inside.

 

[arlum]

I truly wish you good luck with your goal. Up until maybe 15 years ago, (I'm 68), my hair usually grew long enough to hang over my a**. I don't cut my hair. I don't do anything but brush it out. Now it hangs to the center of my back and there's less of it than there used to be. I don't use any of those hair growth helper outer's. I'm totally Mr. Natural. Mr. Natural doesn't let my hair grow as long as it used too. Best wishes and good luck!

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

I am interested, always had mine shaved to the wood and have always envied somewhat those long flowing locks, I may put down the clippers and see what can be achieved.

going into the what would it be like zone: IF , I did or didn't do X,Y,or Z ?
This is for me, an interesting Question.
I do it with visuals. I do it with audio. I do it with writing and Cut ups.
I think this type of pursuit is exciting, well at least it is for me because , as I have been told
I am a very curious person, in both meanings of the word .

1. eager to know or learn something.
   "I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom"
   
   
2. 2.
   strange; unusual.
   "a curious sensation overwhelmed her"
   Similar:strange, odd, peculiar, funny, unusual, bizarre, weird, eccentric, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, out of the ordinary,
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

Bunch of wise guys!
Hairy so and so’s.
Why I oughta’!
I’d let mine grow, if it only would.
Stupid hair!

perhaps your making a stylistic judgement about an idea that exists outside of the world of something that does not require a value judgement that correlates within the boundaries of confirmative.
Could Stupid hair be, fun hair, rather than stupid.

going into the what would it be like zone: IF , I did or didn't do X,Y,or Z ?
This is for me, an interesting Question.
I do it with visuals. I do it with audio. I do it with writing and Cut ups.
I think this type of pursuit is exciting, well at least it is for me because , as I have been told
I am a very curious person, in both meanings of the word .

1. eager to know or learn something.
   "I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom"
   
   
2. 2.
   strange; unusual.
   "a curious sensation overwhelmed her"
   Similar:strange, odd, peculiar, funny, unusual, bizarre, weird, eccentric, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, out of the ordinary,
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hi P thought long time no viddie droogie

“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”
― Anthony Burgess, A ClockWork Orange