This is all so true.
For years, growing up, and even into my twenties and early thirties, I was never happy with my hair, even though it was pretty full on top. I always wanted something else: tried dying it, cutting it short, etc, but nothing seemed right somehow. Then I got to know a few SLY guys, just to talk to in passing, and it was like a revelation: I knew how I wanted to look. But even so, at first, I thought these guys were 'better than me' because they dared to be different. I didnt think I had the balls to follow their example, but eventually i took the plunge: because it was an 'itch' I had to scratch!!
All those years, I wasnt really being true to myself, I guess. I was always quite shy, and aware that I had 'too much' hair, or I was receding, or it was 'too short' even. The irony was that all the while I was sporting 'mainstream' hairstyles, I felt self-concious and shy, yet as soon as I got my head shaved like a beacon saying 'look at me' my shyness disappeared!
Being SLY, I have never once felt it wasnt 'right'. Seeing other guys with the same smooth domes as me, I just feel so glad I took the plunge, because I honestly have never felt more 'at home in my skin' than I do now.
Maybe age has a lot to do with it too, but for the first time since I was about 15, as soon as I went SLY I no longer felt inadequate about how I looked, but equal!!