Remembering Big Hair

Kimberley and I recently celebrated our 30th Anniversary. We were looking at some of our old pictures from our early days and, as always, we were blown away by how big our hair was. This photo was even after Kimberley had reduced her hair size. It is amazing when we look back at the fads that were around when we were young, like those velvet boots that folded down that girls wore in the 80's, parachute pants, mullets, and the many other things you are thinking about right now and laughing. The main point in all of these fads was so we would fit in with what all the cool people were doing. Fortunately, for us, we can look back at these fads and laugh and be happy we left those things behind. My question is what would happen if we would not have ever been able to get rid of those fads; if we would have believed those trends were so cool that we would have made them permanent? We would regret those decisions today because those little fads would impact our lives forever. Unfortunately, young people today are actually facing that issue and we have a society that is not willing to say "this too will pass". What happens when gender dysphoria transitions back from a fad choice to being considered the mental illness that it really is? What happens to those people who are celebrated by society for completely embracing the idea of the "accept a mental illness as a permanent choice" fad, but that same society someday realizes that it was just a phase and moves on? What happens to those people who have to look in the mirror and realize they bought into the fad so strongly that they made that fad permanent? What happens to those people when society gets to the "you really wore your hair that big" point, but it won't be a hair style that can be changed, but iwill be a body that has been irreparably damaged; in some cases damages when they were a child by parents who were supposed to protect their children from dangerous fads and trends? As our socitety turns it's back on God and loses all sense of morality, these trends and fads move away from things like big hair and goes to things that are much more dangerous and permanent. One thing about accepting sinful fads that degrade who we are, is they always leave a scar, whether it is physical or just on our heart, they are always there as a reminder of the decisions we once made. Unfortunately, some decisions cannot be left behind when we finally choose to turn our lives toward a different direction.