How would you life be today if you NEVER experienced hair loss?

[EvilLocks]

As I've said many times, if you can go through hair loss and make it out sane and alive, you can go through anything life will throw at you.

I might make this my signature. It is so true, if you can make it through hair loss you can do anything. If I make it through this there are few things life can throw at me that I can't handle.

 

[CaptainForehead]

Pain, no matter how harsh and unbearable, definitely helps you grow.

Quite intense, and quite true!

 

[FWIW]

I would be living "normal life" by standards of western material consumer society and be one of the 99% thinking that meaning of "life" is to be happy and satisfy your needs -mainly physical and emotional. I would maybe have opposing (or the same?.) gender partner, kids,friends,money, living "life to its fullest"( oh, I hate that sentence).

I would probably not despise 99% of people and I would not be disgusted by almost all human existence.(including mine of course)

Other than that, nothing would really change.

 

[Exodus2011]

It's funny how you can't relate to normal people's desires and aspirations in life after you've gone through hair loss.

It's true that hair loss also made me selfish, especially after getting some hair back thanks to my hair transplant.

You bet I'm trying to enjoy the sh*t out of my life now. I think that when you become more selfish, you become happier, and people around you are also happier.

Because you won't take out your frustrations on them. Live how you want to live, for yourself, not anyone else.

People in my family started criticizing me for having so much leisure time: they see me travelling all the time, doing cool activities with my girlfriend, in short, doing what I want, because I (finally) can, and I don't care.

They're criticizing me because "look at your cousin, look at us, we're working so hard from 9 to 5, this is real life, you're irresponsible!"

If I had a f-ing family to support, yes, it would be irresponsible. The thing is, I don't. But they sure would like me to work and be miserable for no particular reason, because that's what mature people do!

Of course I'm actively trying to find a job, averaging at one job interview per week, usually with an HR c*nt who will dismiss me for stupid reasons.

"You don't have real work (internships don't count of course) experience!" "It's an entry job, b**ch!" "But you don't speak Dutch" *Leaves her office and hears everyone speak only in English and French in the corridor*

My point is, I don't give a f-ck, I've been bald in my early twenties, I came back from it. One other thing hair loss does it that it opens your eyes on what truly matters in life.

What most "normal" people (without hair loss) are concerned about is "doing what's right" you know, they can't even imagine some men don't even have the possibility to "do what's right" anymore.

When I was a bald 22 year old, I sure wasn't thinking about climbing the corporate ladder, getting married to a nice girl and buying a nice house.

so much truth here fred, always with the ****in feels mayne. i think a lot of people's final goal in life is to find a good mate, and with that gone from baldness you can't help but dissociate from humanity in general. so like you had mentioned before, the point of being successful is gone (getting a mate) so you don't care for it

you are right, its like in fight club where they say "self improvement is masturbation". great movie which is like the ultimate bald mans movie. about suffering and the fight for meaning that encompasses the lives of modern men, but it especially applies to bald men. how we are going to be the ones with less status, looks, etc so we have to live life for its own sake

idk if i'm making sense lol, just some thoughts i've had

 

[Agustin Araujo]

so much truth here fred, always with the ****in feels mayne. i think a lot of people's final goal in life is to find a good mate, and with that gone from baldness you can't help but dissociate from humanity in general. so like you had mentioned before, the point of being successful is gone (getting a mate) so you don't care for it

you are right, its like in fight club where they say "self improvement is masturbation". great movie which is like the ultimate bald mans movie. about suffering and the fight for meaning that encompasses the lives of modern men, but it especially applies to bald men. how we are going to be the ones with less status, looks, etc so we have to live life for its own sake

idk if i'm making sense lol, just some thoughts i've had

Hey Exodus2011, :whaasup:

What you said makes total sense. When you're someone like myself who's been a social outcast for most of life, there's a point where you simply just don't care anymore. It is indeed true that a lot of people's final goal in life is to find a good mate, I was one of them. Those who are successful in life always say anyone could achieve there dreams if they're willing to work for it, but they don't understand that it also comes with having significant social advantages which is something not everyone has or is able to obtain. Some people just have it way too easy, simple as that. Some of us here work just to pay bills and taxes, and if we don't work, we can't live.

As men who suffer from Male Pattern Baldness, no doubt we are at a disadvantage living in this world that is basically turning into a giant fashion show.

 

[F2005]

Hey Exodus2011, :whaasup:

What you said makes total sense. When you're someone like myself who's been a social outcast for most of life, there's a point where you simply just don't care anymore. It is indeed true that a lot of people's final goal in life is to find a good mate, I was one of them. Those who are successful in life always say anyone could achieve there dreams if they're willing to work for it, but they don't understand that it also comes with having significant social advantages which is something not everyone has or is able to obtain. Some people just have it way too easy, simple as that. Some of us here work just to pay bills and taxes, and if we don't work, we can't live.

As men who suffer from Male Pattern Baldness, no doubt we are at a disadvantage living in this world that is basically turning into a giant fashion show.

"Significant social advantages". Exactly. These people who have them also possess what I call the luxury of being naive. They've never had their looks distorted to the point where they no longer feel comfortable in their own skin anymore. They are always the ones who spout these stupid cliches like "life is what you make it". Yet we all know that if you are bald, there are certain things that you cannot and will not be able to do.

 

[CaptainForehead]

"You don't have real work (internships don't count of course) experience!" "It's an entry job, b**ch!" .

 

[Bred Pittsburgh]

And of course they conveniently forget that they were born in a wealthy family which could pay for law school and that their uncle hired them in his firm right out of college.

I was talking about that with my mother the other, because of all the hurdles I'm facing regarding finding a job. No, not everyone will be able to "make it" if he wants it bad enough.

I believe luck and chance determine a lot in life. I mean perhaps you one person because you are at the place Y at the right time X who introduces you to another who heard about your skills and by chance jut has an open position in is company.

 

[oye_rg]

I would have taken more risks and would have engaged in more outdoor stuff. Even though I am only a Norwood 2.5 when my hair is styled right and is dry, it looks like absolute crap when there is wind or when it is exposed to some amount of water. It has been this way for the last 8 years. I would certainly be better off financially and in terms of my relationships had it not been for pattern hair loss. I blame early onset of hair loss for my bad grades in school & college and the subsequent mediocre career that I have made for myself.

mpbsux is that Trevor in your avatar. I never thought about it at the time I played it but even in GTA they made the rough bad guy a baldy. The rich posh 'converted' mate living in Vinewood hills had a full head of hair.

 

[Scrappy]

When you're at the point you don't care anymore, you might as well do whatever you can to harm your enemies or the society which has wronged you.

 

[LouieRanks]

Not much.

If it wasnt hair loss, Id probably be just as miserable complaining about something else.

 

[hellouser]

Hair loss is the only thing that bothers me in life; everything else is affected by it. Fix hair loss and everything else is fixed because of it.