Hair Like Einstein

Hair Like Einstein It's with wonderment and envy and hope I sit here right now looking at the wild, thick, rampant and totally untamable hair on the head of brilliant thinker Einstein. With only one real thought coming to me right now, that of I'd love to have hair like Einstein when I am 76 years of age. Of course, a very man like thought but not a thought that hasn’t passed through my mind on more than one occasion. Why is it some men remain covered in hair while others lose all of it? It raised a question, not founded on any kind of science or truth but just a question in a moment of thoughtfulness. David Bowie, pop star extraordinaire he of space oddity, major Tom and ashes to ashes fame not only looks good on his self confessed period of drugs taking but still has an infinite head of hair. Pop Icon Mick Jagger another ageless rocker of the Rolling Stones shows off his thick locks of hair while strutting around like a teen idol even in his 60s. My granddad, drunken bum, unknown no one, lived a life of drink, smoking, women, song and fighting. Went to his grave in his mid 80s with a full head of hair. I also had the unique experience of spending time in the middle of the Amazon in 2008 where I spent time with real Indians. One thing that really struck me, all of them had thick, long, black hair, even the century old shaman. Just the other day I went over to yellow and blue Nordic superstore IKEA near my home. As we walked around I noticed a lot of bald men looking sad, miserable, unhappy, pressured, grey and downtrodden. They reminded me of what the Pharisees called the Israelites in the old days … Amerats (common people of the dirt). They were called this as they were down trodden and oppressed by their (spiritual) leaders. Moaning, sighing, looking like they had been dragged there by a woman that has her mind on one thing only – shopping! It also had me asking the question why do so many people appear to be filling their days doing things they appear to not want to do? I saw no men there with hair like Einstein! Then I had to go into a store around the village I spent most of my life. The store I went to sells bread made to perfection, unsliced and heavy with grain so I can go home and cut myself a 1.5 inch thick slice of bread, toast the bread and prepare it to be slowly, masterfully and ungracefully eaten in a moment that I can only describe as euphoric while I allow the warm honey to slide from the toast, into my mouth and down into a deeper place that serves me well! So just across from me at the next cashier was a guy called Chris. I don’t really know him but I met him on October 13^th 1989 in the early evening. I remember the date so well because his wife had a child the same time as my wife, they shared the ward at the hospital and in fact were in the beds next to each other. His wife held her newborn while my wife at the time held ours. Chris stood there at a height of 6 foot four inches staring down from his lofty perch looking at his wife and his new daughter. Honestly he looked miserable then. Despite the fact he is 3 years younger than me I was shocked when I saw him buying bread. It wasn’t the buying of bread that shocked me it was the fact his head was shining under the cheap lights in the bread shop. His thick dark blonde hair had vanished only to reveal a slightly rounder than usual head shape that had now added years to Chris. He looked ill, sad and grey. Now don’t get me wrong, this isn’t about balding men so if you’re bald and reading this, please read with a smile. Yet it does takes me back to my original question of hair like Einstein? Isn’t it an interesting thing to think about when we notice that a lot of creative men rarely seem to lose their hair? Zoomanity will squeeze almost every ounce of life from us. It wants to shape, conform, mold and control almost every aspect of your life. Really? Yes really! Just take 30 minutes, get a sheet of paper and a pen. Write down in blocks the sequence of life and expectations of life then the reality of life. You’ll quickly notice the cycle presented to you as an ideal isn’t really ideal. The career, the job, the wage, the holidays, the pressure to buy more, have more, do more, achieve more and save and save until death can be so over whelming powerful – it literally does make hair fall out and leave less and less men with hair like Einstein! Of course not all creative men keep their hair. Elton John is bald, Micheal Jackson was bald so guys – sometimes it’s just that way. Yet as an ex-hairdresser myself I have seen vast amounts of men of decades lose their hair due to stress and pressures of life. So guys if you want to have hair like Einstein when you’re in your later years maybe its time for you to let go of the stresses and strains of an unnecessary life designed by Zoomanity and get a little more creative. Attach yourselves much deeper to nature, to yourself and to your needs so you can create a happier, more relaxed, more fulfilled life that gives you hair like Einstein. Just a thought, just an observation. Alan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Escape from Zoomanity is a Book About Creating a Life on Your Terms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~