Hello Steem Family, I would like to thank all of you for such a warm welcome on steem. 
It has only been 2 days and I am so impressed by the family type culuture you all have here. I hope my stay here will be full of fun and happiness.

In my last post, I mentioned about my next post which would be on "why I have an Afro".

![20045711_10211101079336909_8533021197774510860_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdRtZkvffF1YVZGAxDnBnUxsNPNX2T7XdTQKXvWk696tR/20045711_10211101079336909_8533021197774510860_o.jpg)

This is me what I look like right now but I was not always like this. It is only been 8 months since I have this look, so what I looked like before and why I chose to keep it.

Let's go back to early days of 2017 and before that.So let me show you what I looked like then.

![13321712_1053761234659927_2845395811490218759_n.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTCbd8qkZmb5Ae7riA73ncwQVoP33yk9LUYbXM55Q26b/13321712_1053761234659927_2845395811490218759_n.jpg)

You can see here I am taking a selfie in front of my Country's flag and I don't have an Afro, even I have a very short haircut. 

Let's go back to 2016.

![13654299_911778708968046_4522434427858904503_n.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdByPgwMkfN27dcb2fqY3RRSCVRSB7mhSYhC9auF443jx/13654299_911778708968046_4522434427858904503_n.jpg)

By now you would have known that I am standing on the extreme right side with my friends in the blue shirt(Shalwar kameez which is Traditional dress in Punjab).

I have very short hair. 

**How/Why Afro**

Since my childhood, I had short and curly hair. Whenever I hair will grow to a bigger length, I will be asked my Mom or Dad to go to the barber shop and get them trimmed. Even I was in the favor of getting them cut because otherwise they will start looking messy and I will look weird, so honestly I myself didn't like that.

Then one day my friends in my dormitory started conviencing me go for Afro. 
They will force me to grow hair long but I will always say no. 

One day my one friend came to me and showed me a picture of Marcelo, the famous footballer.

![futbol-marcelo-investigado.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfDf2aoPKep2KjFeQWajbWfkPTNFYEvAhbE7b4ychQL8d/futbol-marcelo-investigado.jpg)

I was not fully convienced but he was like please give it a try and if it will not look good on you then you can trim them anytime and I was yes you are right. So I started growing my hair. 

At first I didn't like them because I had started getting curly hair and they didn't look good but as the time past, I was like yeah man I think I kinda like them.

![WhatsApp Image 2017-04-07 at 12.54.04 AM.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRZMphWo6osoAvWTDE1Kv56e5iuG4eDR1TzkLvzAt6Y6F/WhatsApp%20Image%202017-04-07%20at%2012.54.04%20AM.jpeg)

While I was growing my hair long, they looked like this and I was like it is not bad man so why not I keep them growing. So now rest is the history.

![3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcu1CVrugsAwXRtHjGEnijFxCqMQ2BU9idUtTbpSFn1pM/3.jpg)

Hard work and persistence of 8 months paid off :)

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I hope you liked it.It is my second post on steemit. So I am open to any feedback or advice.
I wil be very thank full if you can check my Introduction post.

 [Who Am I? My first Post. Happy New Year](https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@suf1an/who-am-i-my-first-post-happy-new-year) 

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