staying pink???

SO?

The question is, what to do with the hair?...

The pink is kind of cool and kind of different. and it's amazing how people react to it, how many understand the why part, how many people it offends, how many actually like it, how many wish they had pink hair.

there's a personal reason why it's pink, and those that know me know the why, but it is also a general reason, of course, breast cancer, and the run for the cure, specifically.

I've been registered for the run for the cure every year since 1996. there's a few years that i was just registered, but ended up missing the actual event, due to a few things....work, family issues for 2 reasons....but it's something i feel is important enuff to get me out of bed every 1st Sunday in October.

The 1st time was a bit different, it was the first organized run, fun run, that i'd ever done. it was perfect. it came at the end of a learn to run clinic at the running room, and it seemed perfect, a measured 5k, everyone in the clinic said they'd do it...sort of a graduation, a test, and hey, it could be fun!

well it was, that was in 1996...the run was held in the university area, with the start being at the butterdome, and it was an amazing 24 minutes of fun. at that time, the reason was immaterial, it was just a run. but as the event progressed, the reason, it's importance clicked, and became, um, more important.

every year, as the years have passed, it seems like every year i've more and more reasons to be involved. the race bib number has migrated 2 the back of my race shirt, and the page that lists my reasons for running has more and more reasons added to it. an aunt, one of my kid's elementary school teachers, a friend, another family member, and finally all those and more. and yep i raise money, but it just seems the right things to do, it's something to do. i don't know if the $ is actually just little more then a drop in the bucket of what is needed, but the reason seems more important. we may never solve the question this ailment presents. we may never find the reason some spot on the dna map causes this monster to appear. But, we can hope, we can give hope, we can believe in hope. we can be positive, positive that those so afflicted will have a cure, will have lives that will carry on, will bring that power of positive thinking to those that need it, those that have no choice but to believe.

so what does hair have to do with this? well, hopefully people see it and think. think about getting involved, think about those that they know, or knew, thinking about, hope.

so what do i do with it?...well, i could just keep on keeping on. let it grow, and fade...it's pretty much almost all blond now, the pink is quickly fading to the bleached stuff under neath. and my natural hair colour is beginning to reappear....dark and grey....

a few years ago, i did shave itall off. on Halloween, i braved the shave, and went bald...and dammit, it was so cold. cool, but cold. and i swore i'd never shave it in the fall or winter again...but yet again for the cause?....yep...

the run for the cure is about 3 weeks away...and i'm thinking, i want it pink for that...so.....i'm leaning towards getting it coloured yet again.....but

i have a marathon in NYC on November 1st..and yep the pink would make me stand out, but do i want to be in bad old new york city with pink hair?....

i have thought of just leaving it, and getting it cut as soon as the run for the cure is over...but, i don't know...i don't know?...but then i think, there's a reason i did this, that reason still exists.....so.....?.....i think i'm keeping it, i'm gonna probably enhance it...and then decide after the run for the cure what comes next.....the only thing that'll remain, is the reason, the hope that someday being a breast cancer survivor is what will be expected, the norm, and not what's hoped for.



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