This is so deeply validating to read. Hair has always been such an integral part of how I show my emotions. I wrote about how hair holds memory in my Substack journal, and reading this made me feel so seen. I had never connected it with spirituality before, but as someone raised with both Hindu and Buddhist values, what you wrote really made sense. Your piece gave me something new to sit with, and it's comforting to know that others feel the same way about hair and see it with similar meaning and emotion.