I’ve been getting “real” haircuts for the last year. I use to cut it myself but after my wife persistently pleaded that I see a professional I reluctantly agreed and now I have a real haircut. I even have hair product that I use in it. Now that I’m paying money to have my haircut I feel the pressure of making sure it’s styled and not just throwing on a hat. And then I get worried what others will think if I do my hair wrong, because lets face it, hair is a great gossip topic. One of the office volunteers yesterday said it looked cute, she’s a woman of a certain age, so I was flattered but it didn’t satisfy my need to know if I looked cool or dumb. I think it matters more what a teenager would say, after all they know cool right?
About 6 years ago at the PDYM Conference in Saddleback California, Doug Fields said, “Once you hit 25 you are no longer cool.” I remember I tried not to care about whether or not I was cool but in reality I was nervous of what teens thought. Fear filled questions of, “Do they like me?” or “Am I cool?” filled my heart and mind, even to the point where it prevented me from ever mentoring or discipling them.