I used to think I had a big head. When I was young I stuck it in the bars of a staircase railing (I know I’m not the only one) and had a brief moment of infinite thoughts as to how they would get me out. Superman would have to come and bend the bars apart. Someone would have to come with a saw and hack off the bars. My mom would have to come and feed me meals every day. Fortunately, after a few seconds, I managed to yank my head out with no harm or injury.
As I grew older, I began to realize that my head was not big, but it was long and oval shaped. My mother said that when I was a baby she made sure she alternated me from laying on my right side to my left so that my head would have a nice shape. Whatever she did indeed worked, as I found out when I shaved my head for the first time in my 20s. I am blessed with a wonderfully shaped head, because my mother had the foresight to flip me over. Thank you mom. Little did you know I would take advantage of that and shave my head in as an adult.
During said shaved head periods of my life I acquired a large collection of hats. I love hats. So much so that I used to buy them every time I saw them. Much like the sunglasses of Day 320, I believed that one could never have too many hats. I have a very large collection of an array of hats that I’ve held onto because hats that fit your face and head are hard to come by. Especially as someone with a head shaped by my mother’s care. And once again, through this practice I understand that I can do without all of these hats.
So, on Day 323 of my 365 Release practice for non-attachment, letting go and change, I’m letting go of 4 hats to someone whose head size is surprisingly similar to my own. May there be many fabulous days of hat wearing.
[I created the 365 Release Project to practice non-attachment, letting go and change by giving away 1 thing a day for 1 year. The background, vision and guidelines to the 365 RELEASE project are here. The running list of everything I have released is here.]
After reading this, I teared up a bit because I love my head but became so afraid to pull my hair back because of “why is your face so long” comments.
I must say thank you my friend…I shall not hide under my hair any more and embrace this long face and bean head lol!!
Stay tuned
G.
hahahaha! excellent! thank you for following the blog!