I wanted some change!
I dunno, I wanted a clean slate, plus it had been like 12 years since I had done this.
My family and friends are really attached to the image of Me=Afro (or is it a Jewfro, what's the real difference between the two?) so to see me like this now was at first shocking to them. But, as with everything, it's just a matter of getting used to it.
I was actually chatting on Messenger once with an old classmate, and he at one point described me as someone with big hair and a pot belly, he said that's what he'd always remember me by, and it kinda hurt: to him I was just... those two things.