Cut it! Cut it!
HemiDuty wrote: I know I am going to freak out at first, I probably won't know how to control my neck and certainly will not recognize my own reflection for some time.
Just don't do what I did the first time I cut off my hair when I was 19. I went from backside length hair (about 1 meter long) to scalp length hair - about 4cms long. My hairdresser gave me the 3rd degree, had I just broken up with someone, had I just come out of the closet, had I etc etc, and then sent me down the road for a coffee to really think it over. I had been thinking about it for months, so another 15 mins wasn't going to deter me!

Cut it off, had a fabulous colour done (black with purple tips, and have had fabulous colours ever since), then three days later was in floods of tears sobbing "I want my hair back!"
It feels really weird when you brush/comb it, the resistance against the brush is too short a time, and the back of your neck feels cold if you have it done during the cooler weather.