Pippy

You black beanie has served me well for the past months. And you may take some time off, a gray beanie got qualified to substitute you for the season. I love you.
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Hi! I am glad and thrilled to introduce you to a new character in the story of life.

Remember when I told you how I feel so human and safe with my tuque on? To me it's like a safety helmet that encloses my personal thoughts from outside interference, vanity and judgment. (Well, any hat for that matter. Plus, hair is most of the time scruffy- and I'm lazy- and a hat is just the fastest kind of remedy.)

Well guess what. Somebody just knows what I need, and cares about it. Hence the entry of this character in the story. So, everyone, living and non-living things, put on the cat's pyjamas and meet my new company, friend and helmet- Pippy.

Pippy is a gray beanie, gifted to me two days after my 20th birthday. Pippy is cool and cozy. And quite remarkable to people.
When I wore Pippy in Spanish class for the first time, La Maestra acknowledged me when I entered the room, and told me how she's noticed me always wearing this kind of hat. And then I told her, "Uhm this is a beanie, Ma'am.". And from that day on, I was formally "that one with a beanie" in class. 

She actually never acknowledged me on anything I wore or do in class, even if I almost always wore a tuque. I'm pretty sure it was Pippy who catalyzed the verbalization of her curiosity and/or interest over my hats- if there was any.

And from that, we can say that Pippy is special, apart from the fact that Pippy is called by a special name- Pippy. Pippy was by the way, derived from an endearment that gets a lot of variation everytime. Pippy simply was named after the person who gave it to me. And Pippy reminds me and would always remind me of a birthday I planned to just let slip away, but people around me really pushed to make that day special. So Pippy is a lot of people, memories and things to me. Pippy is really special.

So there. Pippy. Cool isn't Pippy? :) The black beanie (as in the topmost photo) I used to wear a lot, and the other gray tuque, are now on a great vacay somewhere. Pippy is taking over the scene for the mean time. And I'm wearing Pippy now. Say Hello.