Perhaps the I would benefit from hearing I story about this, because there was a time when I did the same as the I and put locks on I head through the use of backcombing and wax. At the time, I didn't know what RastafarI was. I didn't know what the Nazarine vow was and I didn't know anything about locks other than that they were a hairstyle, and I already hated having I hair cut, so it kind of made sense to I. I tried growing them naturally, but I mother cut them out when they started to form at the back, so I took the little bathroom locks onto I head and just left them.
As I got older with the locks people started to put the label of Rasta onto I and because I didn't know any better I played into it a little bit, because by that point I kind of liked smoking weed too. But RastafarI was only something I was vaguely aware of through music and from studying Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry in school. So I did a little research and I got I hands on a book of Haile Selassie I's speeches and read it cover to cover. From that, it was like something had exploded in I head and for a while I couldn't even handle it and I went crazy trying to get away from the fact, following every distraction possible to try and distance Iself from it, even though all along I couldn't cut the locks or stop Iself gravitating towards RastafarI but causing Iself plenty of problems and tribulations in the meantime. After a while, those little bits backcombed and stuck together with wax all fell out and turned loose at the end of some clean and thick locks. But locks aren't the point, so in I mind I had to confront everything that had led I to that point. The vanity that made I bow and take the bathroom locks, the stupid things I had done while calling Iself Rasta, everything that the Most High could call I out for. Remember that when I and I rally round H.I.M, it is His standards I and I are judged by, so if Ones and Ones take on the locks and so take on that symbol of a covenant with the Most High, but don't live up to it, then Judgement will fulfil until such time as I and I can master I and Iselves and manifest Righteousness.
So I and I situation is like if I and I had signed up in Haile Selassie I's army and He's seen that I and I are a bit foolish and inpaitient and maybe a bit ignorant. So when the first battle comes, He throws I and I into the thick of it to show I and I that it's sink or swim, life or death.
It's not pleasant, I'm not going to lie to the I, but that's the reality and the I will have to grow into the locks as the I grows into the Iself if that makes sense.
Blessed love
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