Slyness is a state of mind, not a baldess of head.
Ya know...I've been sorta thinking about this. Many of us have said this in some way, shape or form.
Actually, our in-house philosopher VASH should expand here....but I'll give it a shot.
The confident continuance of head shaving I suggest is the
result, consequence...yea,
FRUIT of already having achieved
SLYNESS in the first place. However, you can shave yer bean and NOT NECESSARILY BE SLY. Conversly, you can be SLY and NOT SHAVE.
There are guys/gals who have come and gone 'round here who've shaved their head....and perhaps might still shave it.....but ARE NOT AND NEVER WERE
SLY. They never fully embraced the joy, freedom, practicality, individuality, CONFIDENCE, PEACE OF MIND of buffin' the ol' egg.
I don't think we've outlined a basic model of the mental process (akin to grieving) of becoming SLY completely apart from actually puttin' the razor to the pate. Could be something like this:
I dunno....DENIAL.....FRUSTRATION.....RATIONALIZATION....PANIC....DESPAIR.....COUNTERFEITING (rugs, plugs...).....SHAME.....and then.....
SLYSome reach SLY before even putting the razor to the scalp. I would venture to guess that my fellow BBC's might fall into this since we went straight to the
joy, freedom, practicality, individuality, CONFIDENCE part.
Then there are some who--with much fear and trembling (and perhaps after the above suggested process)--trust our advice to "give it a try" and then step through joyfully to true SLYNESS.
Unfortunately, there are those who don't get past the fear and trembling and--whether or not they ever "gave it a try"--didn't or couldn't experience the
joy, freedom, practicality, individuality, CONFIDENCE and PEACE OF MIND. May I propose that
THIS is the state of mind that never quite achieved SLYNESS.....regardless of whether or not actual scraping took place.
Whether or not one sports hair, the advice of
the SLY to those struggling with hairloss will be as it is 'round here.
The advice of the
NON-SLY would be as confused as the struggler himself and would include the prospects of RUGS, PLUGS AND DRUGS.