Longer Hair

I've been cutting my own hair since I was nineteen!   It had grown out one year in college;  I suddenly and desperately wanted it shorter.  I asked a friend to cut it, and she obliged, with a buster brown bowl cut, which meant that I had to figure out how to correct that, and did!   I've had basically the same haircut for most of my adult years, except for a few times of letting it grow longer.  The last time was when I was pregnant with my second child, 40 years ago.   I wanted to be able to put it in a bun on the top of my head.   I got it there, but since it is thin and fine, it would not stay.  (I didn't know about mousse back then, or maybe they didn't even have it),

It's not that I like myself in longer hair, or think I look good.  Neither of those is true.   But letting my hair get a little longer is something I have the ability to do.  There are numerous other physical features that I cannot change, (short of major surgical interventions),  but my hair grows by itself.  It is the change that interests me, more than the hair itself.  In order to have a different style,  I would have to let my hair grow considerably longer to accomplish that.  I've always dreamed of the style pictured here.

Since I am in the habit of cutting my own hair,  whether this urge to grow longer hair will last for one more day, or a few more months is completely unpredictable.   I do know that it will be temporary. All the in-between stages of growing between one style and the next are a major pain!   I've never managed to last very long in that in-between place, which drives me crazy.

Who knows where this will go?   Probably not very far!