We were meeting after 30 years and what do we talk about? Hair. Understandably, many had lost their crowning glory or their beauty mane. In the place of David Starsky's luscious fluffy hair and John Denver's mop hair is Kojak's shining scalp. Comparing each other's tonsorial assets was the order of the day.In the land of baldies and the receding hairlines, emerged a man with assets of Samson proportions. Standing steadfastly defiant against his wife's tirade and Delilah-like threats of trimming his lock, Samson stays adamant not to part with new found interest in trichology. Amongst the crowd also stood a gentleman with a scalp thick of Sultan Azlan-type of majestic thick silvery hair and another with a heavy white beard to compensate a somewhat bald head.
Samson justified his penchant for keeping long hair to the same reason why sages and philosophers stay unshaven. It is same justification for psychiatric ward policy of shaving patients with serious mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Besides posing a health risk if these patients decide to indulge in hair bezoar, shaving the head serves as an electromagnetic 'jumpstart' to offset their unusual brain activities, so it seems! We are all aware of the gravitational effect of the moon on events on the tide, mood and lunatics. By keeping their hairs untrimmed, brain activities stay unperturbed, they say.
That would explain why barbers think that they are one step ahead of an average man. Since hair is so important in man's thinking, being constantly immersed in the sea of hair may rub some of the clients' intelligence on them! My barber's philosophy, a topic for another day.
