2008.04.27 Sunday
Blood Type Analysis
It was late in the evening and I wanted a quick haircut. I popped into the nearest hairdressers I could find that still had its lights on.
“Are you open?” I asked the owner.
“We’re always open,” the lady replied. At that point I knew that this would be no ordinary hairdressers.
“Your life changes when you have your hair cut,” she told me as I watched tufts of my wispy brown hair drop to the floor. I secretly hoped she was right.
We talked candidly about our lives. I was surprised at how openly we found ourselves talking seeing as I had only just met her.
“What blood type are you?” she asked.
“A,” I replied.
“I thought so,” she said. “I’m ‘A’ type as well.”
Although character analysis by blood type is quite popular in Japan, the statistical analysis it is based on has been proved to be rather dubious.
The question, “What blood type are you?” would only be asked by doctors in Britain, if it would be asked at all. I don’t think that many people in Britain even know what their blood type is, unless they donate blood or have a rare blood type.
“‘A’ types have to be careful with ‘O’ types,” my mysterious hairdresser continued. I became rather intrigued. I’ve struggled with conflicts with various ‘O’ types over the years. “’O’ types bully ‘A’ types if they think they are weak,” she explained whilst blow drying my hair.
I was reminded of what one of my best friends, another ‘A’ type said. She would only become close friends with other ‘A’ types because she would be constantly hurt by ‘O’ or ‘B’ types. On the other hand, she would always choose a ‘B’ type as her manager (she is an artist) because their organizational skills are unmatched. I remember her saying rather wistfully,
“I wish I could be more like an ‘O’ type. They just don’t worry so much about what they say or do or what is said to them. It’s so hard being an ‘A’!”
I can identify with the over-sensitive, emotional nature that ‘A’ types are said to possess but I’m afraid I can’t live up to the “clean and tidy perfectionist” image of an ‘A’ type at all.
And my life did change after that haircut although it had never changed before when I got my hair cut. Or perhaps I’d just never noticed.
“Are you open?” I asked the owner.
“We’re always open,” the lady replied. At that point I knew that this would be no ordinary hairdressers.
“Your life changes when you have your hair cut,” she told me as I watched tufts of my wispy brown hair drop to the floor. I secretly hoped she was right.
We talked candidly about our lives. I was surprised at how openly we found ourselves talking seeing as I had only just met her.
“What blood type are you?” she asked.
“A,” I replied.
“I thought so,” she said. “I’m ‘A’ type as well.”
Although character analysis by blood type is quite popular in Japan, the statistical analysis it is based on has been proved to be rather dubious.
The question, “What blood type are you?” would only be asked by doctors in Britain, if it would be asked at all. I don’t think that many people in Britain even know what their blood type is, unless they donate blood or have a rare blood type.
“‘A’ types have to be careful with ‘O’ types,” my mysterious hairdresser continued. I became rather intrigued. I’ve struggled with conflicts with various ‘O’ types over the years. “’O’ types bully ‘A’ types if they think they are weak,” she explained whilst blow drying my hair.
I was reminded of what one of my best friends, another ‘A’ type said. She would only become close friends with other ‘A’ types because she would be constantly hurt by ‘O’ or ‘B’ types. On the other hand, she would always choose a ‘B’ type as her manager (she is an artist) because their organizational skills are unmatched. I remember her saying rather wistfully,
“I wish I could be more like an ‘O’ type. They just don’t worry so much about what they say or do or what is said to them. It’s so hard being an ‘A’!”
I can identify with the over-sensitive, emotional nature that ‘A’ types are said to possess but I’m afraid I can’t live up to the “clean and tidy perfectionist” image of an ‘A’ type at all.
And my life did change after that haircut although it had never changed before when I got my hair cut. Or perhaps I’d just never noticed.