Translated…
That day, my father showed me the article he’d sent in to the papers, “When My Daughter Got Her Hair Cut Short”, that, was when I’d realized, that he’d been displeased, for so long!
Because my examination grades are satisfactory, without the pressures from my mind, I’d wanted to change my hairdo, to help myself transition, into a brand new stage of my life, and so, I’d gone, and had my hair that I’d been growing cut short. But, as I’d arrived home, I wasn’t met with the shocking and envious looks and congratulations on your brand new look, instead, what I got was my father aloofness toward me, and silent treatments, he just had troubles understanding, why girls are cutting their hair short, isn’t it nice, to feel the long hair, blown in the wind? And he’d even believed, that my cutting my hair shorter or getting a perm, I’d needed his permissions for.
This uneasy air flowed between us for many days, my father didn’t talk to me on his own, and, even when he’d spoken, his words were filled with this harsh criticism for my shorter hair. But to me, having short hair is this brand new experience, and, it’d filled me up with excitement that I’d never felt before.
Especially as I was originally prepping for my examinations, I didn’t have the mind to take care of my originally long hair, and, my hair became wild like the weeds, and from time to time, when I gazed into the mirror, and saw my own messy head of hair, my mood had gotten affected greatly. But after I’d gotten my hair trimmed short, it’d not only save the time for washing and blow-drying after the wash, I’d looked more energetic even, and my friend commented on how much prettier and how much more active I looked.
After my father heard my side of the story, although he’d still mumbled on how he’d enjoyed, braiding my hair as a child, but, we’d finally had our communication over the matter of my “hair”, and gotten to understand one another’s standpoint, and respected one another for the way we’d acted and reacted, and finally, this cold war had ended, peacefully.
And so, you can imagine, that the father is NOT angry at the daughter, trimming her hair of, but the symbolism of her trimming her hair, because from before, the father WAS the one, doing her hair, braiding it up, combing it, taking care of it, and now, his baby girl took it into her own hands, which symbolized how she’s no longer needing him to make some of the minor decisions, and so, she’s marching toward HER own independence, and that, would be what the father IS unhappy about…
