Growing hair is a painstaking process and it requires a lot of patience and care.
People who have short hair, miss having long hair. And those who have long hair, want short hair.
Many organizations donate real hair wigs to those people who are suffering from various medical issues. Locks of Love is perhaps the best-known organization, that takes people’s donations and turns them into wigs for children who experience hair loss.
“Most of our recipients suffer from the autoimmune disease, alopecia areata,” its FAQ page reads. “Others have experienced hair loss from radiation therapy and chemotherapy, severe burns or trauma, and various other genetic and dermatological conditions.”
A 23-year-old, Reynaldo Arroyo, is a recent donor. He had been growing his long hair for 15 years. After all those years, he finally decided to chop it all off — for two very good reasons.
First reason, he was joining the army. The video that shows him getting his hair cut was posted on the Salt Lake City Army Recruiting Battalion.
The second good reason is he wants to donate his hairs who are in need as he did not want to waste his hard work what he did all his years, as he intends to donate his hair to Locks of Love.
“Hopefully some lucky little girl is going to get it,” he said, referring to his hair.
Military hair rules are strict, not allowing long hair on males or any length that touches their collar, falls over their eyebrows or covers their ears.
“Congratulations to Reynaldo Arroyo for enlisting in the #USArmy from the Missoula U.S. Army Recruiting Station as an 11X Infantryman with Airborne!” the Facebook post read.
“Future Soldier Arroyo had been growing his hair for 15 years! Yesterday he decided to cut his hair in exchange for a brighter future with the Army and donate it to the Locks of Love foundation.”
“Oh my goodness,” commented a woman named P.K. Wright Nabours, “as the mother of a daughter who once received a wig from a hair donation – thank you for that wonderful gift!”