now i only kinda sorta hate you a little…i guess

so lately i’ve been rocking a look i used to detest…

…the whole “bald beard” look. you know the one – where guys shave their HEAD, just not their face:

(for the record, that’s NOT me – just used to illustrate…but it kinda looks like chewbaca from star wars shaved down, don’t it?)

moving on…

…i used to hate this look ’cause it just looks like the beard is kinda “floating” on your face – but because i wear glasses, a natural line is created anyway, so now i have that happy medium of extremely short (or missing) hair (hides my age, or so i’ve convinced myself) combined with the laziness (and face moisturizing) option of not being clean shaven. think this look could be here a while.

but this all brought an old waylon jennings quote back to mind – “i got tired of wasting my hate on him”. he went on to explain that hate was a powerful emotion, used a lot of your emotional energy, and that freeing yourself of hating people made you just feel spiritually “lighter”.

and this was years before all the “don’t be a hater” shirts, i should add.

this was supposed to be a sixer bit, where i was gonna list things i no longer hated, and a few things i still did – but try as i might i really couldn’t come up with anything i USED to hate but no longer do, ‘cept for the whole “bald guy with beards” thing, which i only stopped hating since i became one…although the more i look at it i think the beard needs trimming, so that hate might come back anyway.