Hair Raising Tales!!

All the people who read this blog would have realized by now that this is a real good platform for me to vent out my frustrations of the day and much of what I write about is just my channelized cribbing :) This week had thousand things for me to crib about:the lengthy work hours, the apparent lack of food and sleep everyday with the college work keeping me really really busy. In fact, on Saturday (yeah I was working on weekend again!!), when I was returning home at 7 30 in the evening, my professor looked at the light which was on cusp of fading out, and remarked “We are going home early today!!”. That was indeed true as we had not seen sun in any day that we had went back home in the whole week. Anyways, work(or sometimes the dearth of it!!) is something that I have lamented on often, so I would now consider it as a day to day existence rather than a discomfort. I returned back home and watched “Victory” where a Hrithik lookalike slams the world record of fastest 50 and 100 in the same season while in a comic climax, we see Praveen Kumar being present both on the pitch and in pavilion at the same time!! A really bad movie, but it is something that I talk often too. So as I drew short on things to talk about today, the inspiration of a new topic came in the form of my sweetheart’s comments on my hair.

“Your head is a jungle now!!” she laughed looking at me “Why don’t you start making a pony?!!”

Yeah, I really wanted to get a haircut this week but the lack of time and humongous work had made the trip to barber rather elusive.But I have been prodded on the same topic with few of my other friends before this. So in the hindsight, what’s actually wrong with having long hair?!! Did’nt christ had long hair? Didn’t the captain of the Indian cricket team, till some time ago, sported one? Forget the in fashion Ghajini look and go down the memory lane and remember one of the first serials that you had seen on the rickety television sets , “Mahabharata” or “Ramayana”. All the mighty heroes in them had rather long locks and I strongly suspect,you wouldn’t have to be called Billu to be a miser barber in those ages ;)!!

In fact mythology embraces this trend of long hair with much gusto  and respect. Bible has Samson, who loses all his strength after losing his hair!! Greek mythology has the Apollo, the sun god, whose synonym was “Chrysocomes” or “of the golden locks”. In fact, the sun god never allowed a single graze of razor on his long hairs. King Nisus’ life and throne also depended on his long bright locks. He had to let go of both when his daughter cut them off to offer to King Minos of Crete. A piece of sun god Ra’s hair healed an otherwise incurable wound of the earth god Geb. (Just realize how some cultures bestow our entire existence to a simple lock of hair!!). In fact closer home in India, cutting one’s hair is still identified as a sign of mourning and divine identification with the dead. Even if all this reasoning fails to satisfy you, remember the king of the jungle and his rather royal mane that surrounds his face like a halo and you will realize how kingly hair is considered to be. As a mere afterthought, the main protagonist in the game which I am playing for the past few days(Prince of Persia:The Two Thrones),does posses a rather princely lock of hair!! :)

So although I may not be one of the famed warriors and just a mere mortal,but still I feel a bit better about having this difficult to manage crop growing over my head!! Not long enough to be called princely, but still I am in quite an illustrious company in this way!! Well, so what is one of my priorities for this week? Definitely getting a hair cut!! Doesn’t the Theory of Reasoned Action say that our actions are governed by not just our views but of people important to us!!:)