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Male pattern baldness 5-12-11

One more irrefutable piece of evidence that I am growing older is my receding hairline.  When looking straight at a mirror, I can fool myself that I still have hair.  I still have good hair days but it seems that I have more and more bad hair days. I like to think I still have close to a full head of hair and it is only slightly receding, but it is getting harder to fool myself.

I always want to know the unvarnished truth about myself, but yet, I really don’t.  Well today, I got irrefutable proof of exactly where my hair line is.  I was at a house painting estimate and I saw the top of my head.  Lucky me.

I was at a mansion in Bel Air and I entered the master bathroom as part of the overall house estimate.  It had mirrors on the vaulted part of the ceiling and the flat part of his ceiling is also mirrored. This configuration of mirrors gave me an absolute perfect sighting of the top of my head from the looking down position.  Basically, I got to see the top of my head the way it really is.

It’s not bad enough that I actually see my male pattern baldness, my reality is even more depressing; the top of my head is balding unevenly.  Of all my fantasies that I’m not really balding so quickly, I never thought that I would be balding unevenly.  The right side is balding back further than my left side and the front is really thin too.  Geeze!  I’m not one of those guys who looks good partially bald.   How much longer it will be until I have to shave my head?    Another middle aged milestone I had hoped to avoid has irrefutably arrived.