Colour my World with a Blue Kiss!

"I colour my world with a blue Kiss" - Blue Kiss Jane Wiedlin, 1985

So why did I "colour my world with a blue kiss"?

I was lucky enough to meet my hero Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin in 1995 and she had the most incredible looking blue hair!

After that it became a bit of a regular joke with my friends that one day I would colour my hair, blue, the only thing was I was serious, yet I never had the guts to do it until last year.

2001 wasn't a good year for me and when I thought that I had reached the lowest point, the Go-Go's released God Bless the Go-Go's, their first album in 16 years.

This was a turning point for me as the album spoke to me and made me realize that for the last four years I have been following my head instead of my heart. It was time for a change and a major one at that!

So for the first time in years I lived for the moment and coloured my hair blue!

The only problem was I never thought about how people would react to the new me and to be honest I didn't care. But within days I had turned from being seen as a nobody into a freak!

Small town values and narrow minded attitudes! People really do not like it if you have the guts to be different, something that I had forgot, from my days as a long haired "Hippy" as I was called at the time.

Now, I am quiet and shy by nature, which I can handle but to go from being a nobody into a 'blue haired freak' as I've been called was a real eye opener.

Going shopping I was given the most dirty of looks by people behind cash registers and other shoppers. At one point I was virtually accused of being a Punk by a pensioner trying to que-hop in front of me. I gave him a bit of a surprise when I towered over him and spoke in my most eloquent of voices. He soon backed off.

Now I have never done that before as I don't believe in confrontation unless it is necessary!

This was a turning point as for all of the grief that I was attracting I was becoming more and more confident.

Had I known that this would happen I would have coloured my hair blue years ago.

What I have learned from my blue experience is that many people cannot see below the surface level and judge books by the covers.

Where as my perception of myself is that of an "intelligent (I think I am) self-opinionated writer who speaks his mind where ever possible", to many people I am now this unintelligent blue haired freak....and to be honest I don't care!

If people want to be superficial then that is their problem not mine and I would encourage anybody who wants to be different to just do it as at the end of the day if you are happy then why worry about anybody else!