So I've been coming here for a while & feel now is a good time to introduce myself.
I haven't touched a comb since november 2010 & opted for all natural locks. I fought my curly frizzy hair for so long, I hated it for so long and all that is over now. I always thought dreadlocks were awesome and wanted them but thought they required a lot of work so i put it off for a long time. After backpacking around mexico for a summer i decided locks were for me.Unfortunately, I had to wait longer since I was on serious chemo drugs at the time and everyone expected all my hair to fall out. But *I'm Strong* and that didn't happen. Instead my hair stopped growing in curly and after those drugs wrecked my body & not the disease I said F it, its time for a change. So i quit putting my hopes in conventional medicine, i quit usingdeodorant, i quit eating auschwitz meats, i quit shaving my underarms, i quit using harsh chemical products, i quit buying cheap crap from china, i quit and renounced the Plastic Life. For me, my dreadlocks are an outward expression of my inward knowledge of what is important.
I am a college student working towards a plant & soil science degree. I thought I would get a degree and travel the world showing starving villages how to grow their own food using water conservation techniques, how to save seed, how to make and use solar ovens so trees can quit being cut down to be turned into charcoal. I wanted to save the world one organic, open pollinated seed at a time. Now I see that will never be because the world is falling apart around me. I don't want to finish school. I don't want to waste anymore time feeling like I'm an actress with a college student role to play. Going to class, listening to lecture, pretending like all of this is going to pay off in the end.I don't want the money statistics say I could make in two years when I have my bachelors. I want the freedom to spend my time as i want to NOW. To grow my garden, to raise animals, to go hunting without alicense, to shit in the woods, to moonshine & make as many gallons of wine as possible, to have clean groundwater even where oil & natural gas lie underground, to love & live without judgement, without police, without *fences*, without feedlots, without GMO's, without pesticides and without greed.
And this, is who I am.
updated by @raychll: 02/14/15 02:28:01AM