Is it Okay to Scratch Your Hair in Public?

Just opened my window curtains to see how the weather would look like...hihihihi. This came quite instinctively because I once lived with a grandma who looked at the clouds each morning to forecast the weather before she headed to the farm. Here I am in Britain instead of just checking out the weather forecast, I opened the curtains only to be put off my the moist air trapped on the window(condensed air). I could not see through the condensed window and only then did I think of the weather forecast. I can see the blue clouds which is an indication of sunrise; it is my perecption that it will be bright for the most part of the morning. I'm happy with that personal weather deduction.

Now, to the main topic. I watched a video on you-tube in which the novelist Chimamanda Ngozie was being interviewed on Beauty Does Not Solve the Problem. I was listening as part of my morning distractions and after a few minutes she scratched her hair on camera. Should we really be concerned about scratching our hair in public? I thought. I used to tap my hair each time to reduce the itchy sensation, but deep in me, I yearned for that liberty to just scratch it properly and not pretend as if I was one of the posh women in Downton Abbey. Is it the eyes of onlookers? Then I find myself trapped in the perception people hold of me. Just yesterday at the play centre, I watched some lady scratched her hair in public without caring about the spectators above. She needed it, I could feel the sense of relieve after that itchy sensation. You know when you go out to scratch in the bathroom and do justice to the itch as if to tell it never to come again. Well, I guess women who wear weave-ons and extensions are most likely to incur the scratch in pubic dilemma. As for me, I am done with it and it feels so gooooooooooooooood. Just wash, apply some cream and go. As winter approaches, I need to return to plaiting my hair and I'm thinking of itchy scalp, and scratching in public. One of women's wahalas. Should women really care about answering a natural call?

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