Eden

Twenty-One

I think about that, and I'm not sure whether I'm pleased or not. Apparently I might be going to live a long time, here. And that might be a good thing or a bad one.

Assuming I'm right about aging, anyway.

I think. I'm not sure how I feel about that, not really, not yet, but since I can't do much about it, I just go back to looking around.

I go back to looking at fashion, hoping that might tell me what people's faces don't. And it seems like it might, in a way, because despite their similar clothes, there are a lot of differences in the way people wear their hair.

Many have long hair, and often it's braided or tied back, or fastened with what looks like wooden clips and combs, and as well, long hair, and styled hair, seems common for both men and women. I mean, some men have very short hair, like army hair, but a lot have long hair, and plaits and messy updo buns, too. And combs and clips, and all the rest. As in, the men are styled just as often as the women are, from what I can see. And as well, as I look, I see that a lot of people's hair looks almost damp, as well. That seems weird, since I haven't seen any product around, and it takes me a moment to realize why. Their hair is smoothed down with oil, like people in old movies. That kind of a shiny wetness of greasy hair product, but which here must be oil, since we saw olive trees earlier.

They have oil in their hair, like people from the past. Oil and combs and braids, and all sorts of odd things. I look some more, thinking about hair. And about people from the past.

I look at the men, especially now. A lot of the men have beards, but not all of them.

Not all of them.

I stop and think about that.

I look at one clean-shaven man who is standing nearby, and I can see a slight nick on his chin. A nick like a shaving cut, which he's poking at as he talks to someone.

I watch, wondering if that's what it is. It isn't bleeding, obviously, but it does look fairly fresh. I mean, yes, since cuts don't heal, perhaps they always looks fresh, but this one just seems newer, and he's bothering to fiddle with it, like he isn't used to it being on his face, so I wonder if that means he's actually just shaved.

Which, if he has, means people shave here.

I think about that.

If he can shave, then people can probably cut their hair. And if they can do those things, then that means that however it is we've been resurrected, we can still change how we look if we wish to.

Or so I think.

But if I'm right, that's interesting, as well. Perhaps.