Going Bald In London

Regular visitors to London Is Cool will be more than aware that this blog covers a wide range of topics about life in the city of cool and life in general. If I feel I can offer a few words of wisdom on a subject I will do so.

I was sitting around this morning with a wee bit of writers block. I just couldn’t think of anything to write about. Nothing new there I suppose. Then just as I was answering a readers comment on an article I wrote a few days ago, “You Think You Look Cool In That Beanie Hat” I thought about one of my friends who is going bald. And in flash I had something to write about.

Going bald is something that most young men hope will never happens to them. When your a young loon with a head full of hair, you never even consider the fact that one of these days it might slowly start to disappear and that your forehead will gradually get bigger and bigger. NIGHTMARE.

I may not be bald, well okay maybe ever so slightly. I like to keep my head shaved to the bone, well because I like too. HONEST. Okay my forehead is a wee bit bigger than it was maybe 10 years ago and the top of head may be a wee bit thinner nowadays. I suppose that means I’m balding as opposed to bald. Yes that’s it.

I wouldn’t mind having my youthful locks back again, but hell those days are long past and will remain so. Such is life, I wont lose any sleep over it. I look good whether I have a full head of hair or whether its shaved to the bone. Maybe I need to clean my mirror or get glasses or something!

One of my London friends a Geordie guy, who is one of the nicest guys I have ever met is going bald. Let me rephrase that he is bald! But I don’t think he is too happy about it. I have never seen him without his beanie hat on his head. He wears it in the house, when he is on the road no matter how hot it is outside. And believe it or not he even wears the thing when he is sleeping according to his girlfriend. I guess he really doesn’t want anybody to see his bald head and is kinda paranoid about it.

I once managed to get a sneak glimpse of his baldy head when he fell asleep on the couch one night when I was round at his and I swear he slid his beanie hat back on with his hand when he was out cold. Oh boy is he bald or what. He just needs to shave his head to the bone and be done with it, that’s the only hairstyle that is going to work for him now.

A few of my friends back home in Aberdeen have succumbed to the dreaded curse of the receding hairline and just like me they have accepted it as part of life. Apart from one, there is always one. I can’t mention his name for fear of making him even more paranoid about his thinning head of hair, than he already is. He will soon be looking like one of my heroes when I was a young loon the Aberdeen Football Club legend Drew Jarvie. He almost looks like him, he really does. And if you are reading this I don’t mean you, HONEST.

Being bald isn’t the end of the world, even though for some it may seem like it. How you carry your baldness is what counts. Wear it with pride and confidence that’s all you need to do. There are worse things in this world than baldness and believe it or not some woman out there go for bald guys and I guess some don’t. I’m however not bald just slightly receding and thinning…!

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1. You Think You Look COOL In That Beanie Hat