Imagination is more important than knowledge
I decided to get my haircut done before the racquetball game with David. Sport Clips is a novel saloon. There you can watch sports during hair cut. No, the saloon person does not wait until the hair-rising moment to happen on TV to cut the hair. Anyway, it's quite a different saloon. BTW, I'm always on a look out for new, novel.. sorry.. discount coupons. That's what got me there.
She showed me the seat and asked me how she could help. I requested for trimming of hair on the sides and back. She thought it was interesting. Conversation followed
"Are you sure you don't want me to cut hair on top and front? You're making my job easy"
"Yeah. My wife will not allow me in the house, if she finds it too short"
"Hmm. Ok. I'll try not make it too short."
"You know, I tell her that it's inevitable that I will lose it all one day, but she doesn't like it. She says you better have some hair there"
"I don't blame her. Now that you mention it, I just now had a gentleman who was bald on top, you know."
Actually visiting saloons in U.S. has greatly helped me to deal with my anxiety over losing hair. Thing is that, when I was in India, I could never imagine how it will be to have a hair cut done by a lady. So, the first time when a lady said it's not a good idea to cut my hair too short on top, bcoz, anyone can notice easily that I'm going bald, I was getting mentally prepared and coming to terms with fact that it's not anymore Nagarahole forest, but turning out to be a Kolar land, which soon can become a Thaar desert.
Conversation continued. She said - "When I first started to learn this job fifteen years ago, the guy who was training us, mentioned about this top head baldness with hair around. He said that it is very common thing, but people may not like being told that they are bald. There is a term for it - Monkey's Butt"
I laughed, but it was tough. I told her - "You know, I wish you had not mentioned this to me"
She said - "hey, sorry, but that's what it is - a Monkey's butt"
I said - "That's ok. But I feel sorry for you". She asked me why. I said "I don't know how many monkey butts you got to see everyday"
Needless to say, I got out of the saloon soon, managing to cover up my monkey's butt.
Everyone knows that hair on the head starts disappearing one day. But, have you ever bothered to think about where does it go? After spending significant time in front of the mirror every day, I think I've firgured it out. It must be Newton, no not him, but I think he must be the first one to have figured this out. I'm sure Newton was hurt when that apple fell on his head. When you're hurt you won't be that scientific tempered, but you would be thinking enough to figure out who to blame. So, when he felt the pain on the head, though he wanted to blame it on the apple, he being a scientist, he knew it was not that obvious. Not an apple or the tree, but it must be his head itself. If at all he had some hair covering his head he would not have been that hurt. So, I think that's when he actually started thinking about "hair on the head" and then presenting the world the laws of gravity.
Newton might have been happy with his thesis, but not me. Gravity cannot explain it all. Then what else? I think Darwin can help a bit here. Yeah the"Survival" theory. I don't think all that hair would have just fallen down bcoz they are up there at top. Hair would have looked for ways to survive and they did - nose, ears, armpits and other interesting places below the head!
Yeah I'm glad I figured it out, thanks to Einstein's words! - "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
posted by Pradeep @ 8:50 PM
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