Aging & Wisdom Quote by Logan P. Smith

Baldness, in Logan P. Smith's hands, becomes a sly little portal into adulthood: a loss that reads, perversely, as a gain. "Felicity" is the key word - not happiness as a burst of pleasure, but happiness as a settled condition, the kind you arrive at after you're done auditioning for other people's approval. By calling it "on the far side", Smith frames hair loss like a frontier you cross and then, almost to your surprise, find life gets easier.

The line works because it needles a very specific young-male superstition: that attractiveness is a form of security, and security is a form of meaning. Young men "can possibly imagine" the benefits because their imagination is colonized by the mirror. Smith's subtext is that youth mistakes contingency for identity. Hair feels like you; losing it feels like losing status, sexual capital, even destiny. The joke is that the status anxiety was the real problem all along.

There's also an old-world, slightly dandified confidence in the wording. Smith isn't writing self-help; he's offering an epigram - a small, sharpened consolation that doubles as critique. The bald man has been forced, early, into a kind of detachment. You stop investing in a negotiable surface and start building an internal style: humor, competence, perspective. The "felicity" isn't that baldness is good; it's that it makes pretense harder to maintain, and that turns out to be a relief.