Going Natural

This semester has changed in so many ways, I changed my major, I decided what I want to do for at least the next 7-10 years and I decided to go natural. What this means is instead of putting chemicals in my hair thereby destroying it and spending hundreds of dollars trying to repair it I am going to embrace my naturally beautiful curly hair. So far so good. For a lot of women this process is frustrating, time consuming and frightening and I would say in general the same goes for me. I am afraid of what my dad is going to say and I know my granny is going to call it ugly and tell me dad to make me get a relaxer again (as if my dad could tell me to do anything anymore, I'm 21, I gave birth and I am getting married). I don't know what my sorority sisters are going to say and am I going to be able to meet the recruitment standards? Will I be able to get a job this summer? May be I'm over reacting but I feel like this is the reality for black women. Natural hair is unprofessional and radical, and while I may be radical I can easily conform to the white idea of professionalism.
More than all these worries I am actually trying to teach my self how to care for natural hair because I never have had to. By the time I began making my own hair decisions I had relaxed hair. Well more updates to come...