It seems that we are never content with what we have. I know that this is not a new sentiment and that people have been saying this since time immemorial. I suppose even the early cave people would have complained of having either too much sun or not enough sun. Too much of anything is bad for us and leads to all sorts of problems. Too much food will lead to obesity and then too much fat will lead to many different diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. The same thing happens with too much money, we tend to become selfish and greedy, leading to a breakdown in relations and a lot of heartache.

This is why we are taught that all should always do everything in moderation, even things which are good for us such as exercise and sleep. You would not think that too much exercise could be bad for you, but it can lead to problems if you become obsessed and lose too much body fat. The same goes for getting too much sleep. We are all taught that sleep is good for us as this is when the body does its repairs and recuperation. However, too much sleep will lead to disorientation and headaches, especially if it is not a regular habit of yours to sleep too much.

Even when it comes to our appearance and our self confidence we can have similar problems. If we are too self- assured we will come across as arrogant and set people against us, and if we lack self confidence then we come across as being too shy or even dense. You just cannot win. With our appearance, there is so much that we are not happy with and that we wish to change. There are very few people in the world who are totally happy with the way that they look and to be honest, I have never met a single one, even though I have met a lot of people in my life through my travels and work.

Let us take the simple example of hair. This may be an innocuous subject but it can cause a lot of problems for a lot of people. There are those people who have too much hair and wish that they had lees. This is usually hair on the body and face, but even hair on the head can be a problem if it is too thick to manage or too curly to keep tidy. This is where people will have laser hair removal treatments (on the body and face, not head!).

The opposite side of the coin is those people who suffer from hair loss and this is usually from the head, leading to total or partial baldness. This can be rectified with the cosmetic surgery procedure of having a hair transplant. Both of these conditions can be equally distressing and leave the person feeling upset and helpless.

_ Last night I had a dream that my hair had gone all brittle and lifeless just before a major event in which I was to be making a presentation in front of a large group of people. This may be a common dream for anyone who is used to making presentations or doing public speaking, but for someone like me who does not make speeches and lives a very quiet life; this was a most unusual dream.

Then I realised where the germ for the dream had come from. It was not, as I had supposed, a fear of embarrassing myself in front of people, but from the fact that I had had my hair dyed the day before! You see, I had tries out a new dye and would have been fine but for the fact that a friend who was with me at the time told me that some dyes can make your hair fall out very fast.

Now, I am not the type of person who tends to worry about a lot of things and I do not think that I am vain about my looks. However, I do have a lovely head of hair and I am proud of the way that my hair is glossy and soft and that when it is freshly washed and styled, I get many compliments on it. So yes you could say that I am vain about my hair. The only problem is that I have to dye it regularly and this is a bit of a nuisance, especially when I cannot find the time to fit in a visit to the salon. So this is when I have to resort to a 20 minute home job with a dyeing kit. I have never had a problem with any of these home kits and would recommend them to people.

I got to thinking about all the many things that we tend to worry about and which may never happen. On the other hand there are things which cause stress and worry which we have to think about and be wary against. The problem is that all of these worries can lead to early hair loss and this is a vicious cycle. The more you worry about hair loss, the more you will suffer from the same affliction.

There was a time when the most that you could do to cover the fact that you were losing your hair, was to wear a wig or a hair piece, or continually wear a hat in public. None of these actions were very natural and they included a lot of palaver each morning. Thanks to advances in the field of cosmetic surgery, you can now get a hair transplant which is permanent and is a one off process. A hair transplant can give you back a natural looking head of hair and the recovery process is now quite short. You will suffer from a little discomfort for a while.

While there are many things to be feared in this world, there are also many things which we fear unnecessarily. How many times have you spent worrying all night about an assignment or a report which needs handing urgently, only to find out later that there was no urgency? How about the way we worry about a pending interview or surgical procedure which turns out to be piece of cake in the end?

These are all things which we find ourselves stressing about and in many cases there is no need to panic. On the other hand, there are many things which we should panic about and don’t! Among these are things such as the polluting of the atmosphere, the affects of global warming and the problems with the environment. How many times have you made the decision to start improving your life, or your lifestyle, and then given up before you start to see any results? I know that I have done this so many times and each time I think to myself that this time it will be different and that I will persevere.

One of the few things which I have actually managed to keep up with is the routine which I established of looking after my hair. This was a conscious decision which I made after I found myself being confronted by the sight of strands of hair on my pillow each morning. I did some research into the subject and then decided that even though I could not completely control the rate at which I would lose my hair, I could still do certain things to affect it. In my family there was tendency for the men to go bald at quite a young age and for the women to also suffer from hair loss to an extent which meant that they often had to resort to hair loss treatments, both natural and medicated.

The fear of hair loss caused me to start watching my diet and making sure that I got all the necessary nutrients which my hair needed to grow well. I also started to massage my hair and scalp with oils which would strengthen the roots and the strands of hair too. Even things such as exercise were addressed and I started to make sure that I managed to fit regular exercise in to my daily routine. Even though all these actions may not slow down the rate of hair loss, at least I will feel that I have done everything that I possibly can.

If however, I find that I suffer from great hair loss, I can always turn to cosmetic surgery and to procedures such as having a hair transplant or the newer FUE hair transplant.There have been so many advances in the area of cosmetic surgery that there is now a much shorter recovery time from procedures such as a hair transplant. The other plus is a more natural looking result than before.

They say that the key to aging gracefully is to have the self confidence in your looks, no matter how much they change. I know of women who have gone grey at an early age and have refused to dye their hair. They now have thick glossy hair which is in good condition and they are not concerned with the fact that it is grey or white. They hold their heads up with pride and believe that they still look attractive and glamorous.

The fact is that a lot of beauty can never be measured as much of what makes a person appear attractive is on the inside. It is that certain air, that particular turn of the head, that sensual laugh or that twinkle in the eye, none of which can be pinned down. One of the most attractive things about a person is the way that they carry themselves, the way that they act and behave towards others and this is all down to their self image and the confidence that they have in themselves. Some people find that an arrogant stride works for them whereas others prefer someone who has a confident stride, and let us not forget that even the ambling gait of some people is attractive to certain people.

One of the things which can affect the confidence of a person is the way that their hair behaves or does not. We have all heard about how having a bad hair day can ruin someone’s mood for quite a while but what about those poor people who used to have lovely flowing locks but due to age, illness or some other cause, now have to face seeing the evidence of their loss on their pillows every morning. Losing your hair either completely or partially can make you feel as though you are no longer attractive, especially since the media has made us all think that unless you have thick shiny hair, you are a failure and unattractive.

We know that this is not true and there are many attractive people with no or thinning hair as you can see when you watch any movie. For men, hair loss can be total or partial and for some men it can be the start of a whole new lease of life, not having to worry about styles and that horrible combing over the scalp of the few remaining hairs. They carry their bald pates with pride and confidence and remain attractive to women.

For others however, baldness is something which needs to be fought and they do this in a number of ways with the most popular these days being the hair transplant and in particular, the FUE hair transplant. These are both procedures where the advances in cosmetic surgery have meant that there are fewer problems and a quicker recovery time for anyone choosing this path. These procedures give a more natural look to the head than wearing a wig or toupee.