It's Just Hair, Right?

I've realized something about myself and I don't know what to think of it quite yet.  It seems that whenever I go through a major time of self-reflection and realignment, I shave my head.

I'm not sure why.  I think I may have to do with a self-renewal thing in my mind.  It may be that I see the hair as a symbol, and all of it's length, a timeline of my progression to where I am at that point.  It may be that the shaving of my head is my own understanding (and symbol) of the need I have inside to start over again from scratch and try this thing again.

And in that way I think my newly "chopped top" is a prayer.  It is my own small action that represents a very deep need of mine, the need to start again.  It represents my knowledge of my failure and how I feel about it, but it's also a celebration.  A celebration of forgiveness.

Then again, maybe it's just cooler for the summer.

Regardless, it's liberating.