May 21 2008
we can all make differences
I know that I have already posted about David Cook once and his amazing music but I forgot to mention that he is an inspiration.
I had been waffling back and forth about cutting my hair and donating it to charity, like Pantene Beautiful Lengths.( http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/ )It is a good cause but I’m a girl who really loves her hair. Long and blond, I’ll admit it is my best quality- and possible the only one I like. In the last 15 years it hasn’t been shorter than shoulder length and the prospect of it scared me- 9 inches off would take it have way up my neck. Around the time of “Idol Gives Back,” my internal debate was heating up and my family was hit with cancer. In fact I heard about my aunt the same week as the news broke that Cook’s brother was suffering from brain cancer (the same kind as my aunt eerily.)
I felt helpless as I heard the bad odd she would face. “A few months, maybe a year,” Doctors had said. “One day she’ll just not wake up.” It was awful and all she kept saying was, “I don’t want to lose my hair.” I was baffled as I watched Idol, how could that be her biggest concern. Then Cook had “Give Back” written on his hand as if it was the answer I had to give in.
I couldn’t understand her and yet I was debating a haircut, drastic haircut but still. A woman’s relationship with her hair is a love affair. It makes us feel happy and special, beautiful and secure. But just like some love affairs, sometimes it is lost. I could help someone find a new love, while giving my follicle romance a makeover.
As I settle in to watch Cook for the last time tonight, or at least the last time as an American Idol contestant (and as he gets crowned- hope hope), my Aunt has taken a turn for the better, Cook’s brother will be in the audience-which I hope means his family has received the same kinds of miracles as mine- and I will be nervously playing with my chin-length hair hoping that my donation has made someone smile the way David Cook makes me smile.
wow this is such an insperational story! you totally rock for doing that!