All We Are Saying...

During my recent John Lennon Marathon (where I listened to all my 40 hours of John Lennon music during work hours for a full week. Also referred to as my 'Lennonthon') I felt a pang of inspiration while listening to Amsterdam:

"...what we're really doing is sending out a message to the world, mainly to the
youth, especially the youth or anybody really that's interested in protesting
for peace, or protesting against any form of violence and we say everybody's
getting a bit heavy or bit intellectual about it. Everybody's talking about
peace, but nobody's doing anything about it, except for a few people, and the
things are - the Grosvenor Square marches in London - the end product of it was
just newspaper stories about riots and fightings. And we did the bed event in
Amsterdam and the bag piece in Vienna just to give people an idea, that there's
many ways of protest and this is one of them. And anybody could grow their hair
for peace or give up a week of their holiday for peace or sit in a bag for
peace, protest for peace any way, but peacefully cause we think that peace is
only got by peaceful methods and that to fight the establishment with their own
weapons is no good, because they always win and they'd been winning for
thousands of years. They know how to play the game violence and it's easier for
them when they can recognise you and shoot you. They don't know how to handle
humour, peaceful humour, and that's our message really."

Anyways, one line of that really stood out while I was listening to it: "anybody could grow their hair for peace"

And I figure that with all the violence in the Middle East right now, and the constant reminders of racism in this country - all this bullshit in the world - I am doing my part and growing my hair for peace. Luckily, I was going to get it cut on New Year's Eve (I haven't had it cut for around 2 months already - maybe I was subconsciously beginning my peaceful protest...) but didn't end up getting it done, so it will be interesting to see how long I get it.

Also, I think my flatmate may be starting a 'Grow Your Hair for Peace' group on Facebook (I would, but I am allergic to Facebook)