{"id":835,"date":"2021-06-07T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/?p=835"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:29:58","slug":"the-epiphany-of-a-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/the-epiphany-of-a-haircut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany of a Haircut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Sananshi Pidyar<\/em><br><em>Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala, Haryana<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a lacklustre Wednesday evening, after being berated by my mother for my lack of discipline, I was following my nighttime regimen of brushing my teeth before bed. As I stood in front of the mirror while my mind wandered to the realisation of how shambolic my life has become, my eyes gazed at my curly tangled hair, which was no less than an allusion to my chaotic life. It felt as if I was yearning to strike a symbolism between two, a metaphor, for something that is in my control but not quite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I seemed to stop dead in my tracks and couldn\u2019t help but think of all the ways I had let down the people I care about, how I have completely abandoned my principles and become an unrecognisable version of myself. My mirror-self seemed to scoff, beckon then dare me to turn over a new leaf.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armed with a pair of scissors in hand, and conviction in my heart, I cut my locks to a length to which I almost couldn\u2019t recognise myself. And instead of the expected gasp, I saw a smile plastered to my face. I was shocked at my rather daring act, and the fact that there was complacence where there should&#8217;ve been contrition. And I sensed a foreign feeling prodding through my solar plexus, quite perplexing until I realised, I felt empowered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For most of my life, I have admired women with short hair by the likes of Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Maharani Gayatri Devi and a legion of others who have carried themselves with such grace and poise. To me, they are the epitome of grit and conviction, and my subconscious has led me to associate short hair with traits that I would like to imbibe, but above all of it, I felt liberated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt that with every snip of the scissors, I was letting go of all the pain and the disappointment that had accumulated over the past, cut down and stashed away into oblivion. Just like that, a simple haircut became an intangible, spiritual search for a transcendent consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sananshi PidyarConvent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala, Haryana On a lacklustre Wednesday evening, after being berated by my mother for my lack of discipline, I was following my nighttime regimen of brushing my teeth before bed. As I stood in front of the mirror while my mind wandered to the realisation of how shambolic my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-simply-express","tag-haircut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}