Apparantly there is some time of beef between some naturals and some relaxed individuals. WHY? That is the question I ask. I make it a point not to tell anyone else what they need to do to their hair. I will share what I am doing with mine if and only if I am asked. I did not start this journey to become a relaxed hair hater. I actually thought about the real reason I decided to go natural today. My hair was very damaged (and as far as I know still could be) so I decided to stopped relaxing it. Now for the first month or two I bought into all the "not loving your true self if you relax your hair" crap, but, I thought about it one day...you can be natural and smoke and guess what, you still ain't showing yourself much love. I gotta watch what I put in my hair but it's ok to eat anything I want (that's a biggie for me). Healthy hair...not so healthy body...not exactly my goal. Really, think about it.
Now, I can't say that I will NEVER put another relaxer in my head. So I can't condemn those who choose to do so. On that note, I don't expect to get strange looks and the third degree about why I'm not relaxing mine. This is not a reason for people to hate on one another. It's a matter of personal choice. You do you and let the next person do likewise. Anyway, I am not trying to get back to my roots or become enlightened about who I am through my hair. I simply want my hair to be healthy. My choice was to go natural, and that's just what it was, a choice. I can say that one of the best things I like about choosing to go natural was that I have learned a lot about my hair and how to take better care of it. I have also learned to love me some me. Not because I have "returned to my roots", but because I am supposed to love myself no matter how I wear my hair.
Personally, my natural hair journey has become more of a healthy life journey over the past month, as I began to make choices that will help me not only have healthy hair, but also become more spiritually and physically fit. So I guess, my journey now is from unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one...yay me!!! Just remember, do you. Whatever that is, do you!!!
