as small as a world and as large as alone

4:28pm July 27, 2014

So I often tie my hair back in a ponytail.  But for some reason, I always imagine that I have one of those ponytails where the ponytail stays the same thickness all the way down.  Like the ones people with very straight shiny hair always have, where the thickness of the ponytail where the rubber band is, is pretty much the same as the thickness of the ponytail at the bottom.  Such ponytails also tend to be very neat and well-defined and shiny.

Then I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror… and discover that I have one of those ponytails where it starts off one width and then puffs out in a major way, to the point where it’s visible in front at the width of both of my shoulders.  :-P

And it’s… not neat, or well-defined, or shiny.  It’s more sort of shaggy.  Not that this is a problem, any of this, it’s just weird when my expectations of my appearance and the reality of my appearance collide like this.

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