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The beginning of my journey, and my inspiration
Three years ago, a good friend of mine started to dread his hair. Back then, I was ignorant and I didn't know what dreading was about. I asked him, and he explained to me that he wanted to be his natural self. He was a lot more philosophical about it, but that's the gist. We spent a year after that inseparable, and his thoughts on dreads spoke to me. I spent some time researching it, and only found information about wax and the like. I wasn't a fan of the idea of smearing beeswax in my hair, so I decided that maybe dreads weren't for me.
I lost contact with my friend in May of '11, and in November I started thinking about him again. I planned to attend his band's first concert, but on November 11th I got really sick. I wanted to remember him, talk to him, think about him. In early December, I learned that he had gotten killed in a car accident on his way home from that concert on November 11th. I wanted to commemorate him somehow, so I planned for a small tattoo, began flying his flag on my boot, wrote songs I knew he would have liked. And yet none of this seemed like it was enough. I began thinking about his dreadlocks again. When he cut them off last year, he gave one to me. I decided I would have dreadlocks, but not JUST for him. I began doing some more research, thinking that if it came down to it, I'd buy the nasty-sounding wax. I found this site, lurked for a while, and decided that tnr was the way for me.
I still have his dreadlock, and I want to sew it into my own so I can always carry his journey with me. RIP Nick. eNVy to the end.
Thanks, Melanie. I plan on putting up pics. I'm not sure whether I should do it while my dreads are babies though.
What a beautiful story. I'm so sorry that you lost your friend. I think it's a wonderful idea to incorporate his lock into one of yours. Please show us a pic when you've done it : )
Awesome, thanks SE. Sounds way less damaging than sewing. And more permanent.
beautiful but instead of sewing it in fray out the ends an inch or more root of his tip of yours (by fray i mean comb)
then just mesghh the koose hairs tiogether and wrap wrap wrap like an inch above to an incfh below..or more
they will dread together without sewing