To cut, or not to cut?

My hair is getting ridiculously long.

Ok, that may or may not be an exaggeration, but nonetheless, its long.
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I know its getting too long when I braid my hair and look like a 10-year-old more than straighten it.

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Now if I had the perfect hair and it did exactly what I wanted to all the time and was just beautifully straight all by itself, this would not be a problem. (My sister-in-laws all have this said perfect hair, I'm sure of it!)

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But it is not the perfect hair and instead of being beautifully straight all by itself, it is really quite the opposite. Not opposite as in curly, pretty locks of golden hair, but opposite as in it takes way to long to do and never does anything I want it to, therefore the ends do not justify the means. (Means being sacrificing an extra hour to blow dry and straighten on top of showering)

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I really cant stand my hair when it reaches this point, but I always have such a hard time getting myself to cut it! I feel like a simple, barely noticable trim wont fix the unmanagability. No. It's got to be big scale...6-8 inches. So maybe if I start talking about cutting my hair now, in a few weeks Ill find the courage to chop off my not-so-perfect, ridiculously-unmanagably-long hair.

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To cut, or not to cut? That is the question.