Shave for a Cure to Apathy

My brother in-law works as a nurse in a couple of different mental hospitals in the greater Brisbane area. This in itself is of little interest as he speaks of his patients as though they were objects, discarded and worthless.

Did I mention these facilities were for the 'criminally insane'? Or at least, criminally faking because the institution is better than insti-prison. Now, is it just me, or does that sound like it could be an infinitely interesting place to be? Anyway, he's a small-minded jerk, that was the point of my tangent.

Usually I'm subjected to tales of how these people are crazy and no-longer human and all that, when one day he actually tells me something interesting - well, not me directly, but I'm in the conversation.
He said that, just before one of the patients - I don't know - flips out, freaks out, takes a turn for the worse, loses it, or just completely changes their personality, they shave their head.

If a patient shaves their head, the nurses either up their meds, watch them more closely, or both, because they know something big is about to happen, whether that be a violent spat, or a shift from being Jesus to being Chuck Norris. Which is interesting, these people are unstable, free from ties to, and judgement from, society in general. These people are free to change fiction-suits, explore new personalities and possibilities at whim, not even because they're crazy or they need to, but because they can.

So, are you bored? Angry? Depressed? Indifferent?

Get a perspective shift, shave your head, or do something else drastic to your hair. Or do it slowly, pace the change and study it, cutting your hair a couple of inches at a time and allow your mind to be slowly awakened.

Don't get me wrong, there's more to a shift in consciousness than a trip to the hairdressers, but as you feel yourself expanding beyond the limits of 'self', a change as simple and shallow as a haircut can greatly affect your own innerview.

And while you’re at it, read Philip K Dick’s Valis, and ask yourself what it means if that whole book were true.