Going natural not cliche

I'm going natural but not cliche .  what I mean by cliche : I won't be rocking afros on the daily or wearing twists or being locEd up.
But if I was I dont understand everyones hang up about being natural. MORE POWER TO THE SOUL SISTERS . I think the women who wear these gorgeous styles do it absolutely beautifully , the look just isn't for me , not saying I wouldn't try it out. After all I look great with most things I do .
  I find it funny that when I was mentioning to people that I was going to have a bc = big chop during my process , everyone cringed. But I say you only live once so why not? Besides I wear wigs anyway so kno one would even know a difference :)
So I thought, lol. I decided to have a long process instead so that I could slowly learn how to take care of natural hair being that no one in my family has ever been natural to my knowledge.
I must admit I used to be exactly like the critics that I have been facing . I felt like I didn't need to be natural and relaxers worked for me. A friend of mine was  offended once when I said I couldn't be natural . It really made me sit and look at myself. Why couldn't it be for me, and maybe I wasn't as open minded as I thought I was. after all, my edges and ends are damaged , my hair sheds badly and my hair isn't nearly as long as I want it. So clearly relaxers aren't working for me . So why not try something new? It will be healthy on my hair edges and scalp.
But anyway, today marks the day that I'm officially announcing that I'm going natural . I say that today is the day, because today would have been a day that I would have gotten a relaxer (in between  relaxers) basically. :) .. So today is the day . Ill keep you posted and updated .

Thanks for reading
Love sharidan  - going natural but not cliche