Merierin

I think it sucks that Sweden is the only nordic country in the final this year, but it pisses me off when I see the nordic countries cuss ans say they want to kick Sweden out. We host it this year, we didn’t have to compete to qualify so we don’t compete on the same conditions as the rest of you. Just like the big five doesn’t since they don’t have to compete to go to the final either. That’s a perk of winning, but I really don’t believe we’re going to get anywhere close to winning this year with a lame song as “ If I were sorry “.

During most of my time in high school I kept my hair long because some of the more “ popular kids “ had very strong opinions when it came to a girls hair length. During my first year I cut my hair to just above my shoulders, I’d previously had hair that almost reached my butt. Just days after I’d gotten my haircut I heard some girls from my class talk about haircuts and hairstyles. One of them mentioned that her hair was in such bad condition from bleaching and flat ironing it that she’d probably have to cut at least 1 dm ( About 4 inches , according to a quick Google search ) , which would’ve still left her hair below her breasts so it’d still be considered pretty dang long. But she said, and did so very loudly, “ OH NO then I will have short hair and girls can’t have short hair! That’s fucking ugly! Social suicide! “. And it was pretty hard to be very insecure and hear such a comment just days after chopping most of mine off. On top of that I was the only girl in my class that could be considered “ short haired “ , I was the only one with hair above my shoulders. And of course It was the classic case that I didn’t fit in at all so of course I got even more insecure by such a comment as I felt like that was one of the reasons why I couldn’t really get close to the other girls in my class. Last week, years later, I decided to cut it “short”, just below my collarbone. It is very short compared to how long my hair was before, when I sat down my hair would touch my thighs so you can jut imagine how long it was. And as I look at myself in the mirror now with short hair vs long hair I feel way more confident about what I look like with shorter hair. I feel prettier, and it feels more like me. I don’t want to be the comparing person, but I will give myself the pleasure this one time and say that I really think I look better than those girls who said that girls look hideous with short hair.