I cut my hair yesterday. Not too short, but I took about 3-4 inches off and feel brand new! It's so interesting to me how different you can feel when you look slightly altered. I've known for quite sometime that a dab of makeup, a pair of earrings, a splash of perfume, or in my case, a cute hairdo, can boost confidence. I would normally blame society for creating unrealistic views about self-worth and beauty through the media leading to declined self esteem in young people across the globe...but there is definitely something about changing the way you look that is beautiful. In landscape architecture class up at Berkeley we read an article about architectural design based on human characteristics (physical, physiological, and psychological). The article mentioned that humans find patterns with an interuption in them to be more beautiful than straight patterns. The example they gave was a brick wall, vs a brick wall with a window cut into it. Visually, they claim, it is the contrast that we find beautiful as humans. This made me wonder why we build cookie cutter homes. It also made me see yesterday that the excitement I had when I looked in the mirror yesterday wasn't vanity-it was beauty.
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