I just got out of the shower and was brushing out my hair. Several thoughts came to mind as I was doing this which inspired me to make this entry. I suppose everything I'm going to mention can apply to both women and men. These are my pros and cons to having long hair. Feel free to add your own in the comment section below. LEH GO.

Pros:

Flexibility & Styling
Having long hair gives us the option to play around with many hair styles.
My hair is naturally wavy and thick and I can curl it, straighten it, keep it down, put it up.
Whatever I feel like doing, I can do it with my hair.

Face
For me personally, having long hair accentuates and compliments my face better than short hair does.
I don't know the science behind face shapes & what styles suit some people better than others but I know for a fact that short hair on me does not look good at all.

Feeling Girly
Having long hair and wearing it down in public makes me feel beautiful. If my waves are settling in a good way or if I freshly straightened my hair, I jump on the opportunity to wear my hair down. It's a confidence booster and it makes me feel more feminine. I'm not saying that women with short hair aren't feminine, it's just that for me personally as a tomboy, wearing my hair down gives me that extra boost of being girly.

Cover Up
Long hair doesn't come with many uses but here is a use that we ladies can utilize. Every girl and I suppose some guys too have experienced the hickey situation. You have to go to school or work, a job interview, a family event, a meeting with your corporate office and you have a hickey on your neck. Sure you can use make up but that just makes your hickey look like a faded bruise, which still isn't very attractive. Do you have long hair? No problem! Just wear it down and style it so that it covers up your hickey as if it wasn't even there.

Fixing Mistakes
Another benefit to having long hair is that if you decide to chop some of it off and you aren't planning anything too extreme but it doesn't turn out right, you can always cut more off! Just be careful not to go too short because this stuff takes a while to grow out sometimes. It's nice being able to play around with different lengths before settling on your final strand. Queue cheesey ba dum tis.

Sniffing Hair & Playing With It
Maybe I'm just weird but I have a habit of sitting in class or a meeting and grabbing a few strands of hair and twirling it between my fingers, maybe twisting or braiding small sections or just flat out putting a section onto my face and smelling it. I've also had several boyfriends who would enjoy cuddling and nuzzling their faces into my hair to get a quick wiff of my shampoo scent etc... It's hard to do those things with short hair. Plus having long hair allows you to pass time quite wonderfully.
I also have a strong love for people playing with my hair. As a kid my aunts would always braid my hair, play with my hair etc... and I just find it extremely relaxing and pleasurable. Being at a salon and having the stylist wash and massage your hair is another really great feeling.

Cons:

Annoying
Having long hair has many perks but it also has cons. For me the biggest of them is that long hair can be annoying. I do a lot of moving and lifting and long hair just gets in the way. The worst is when strands of hair get stuck on the corners of my glasses and I have to spend more time pulling them off and readjusting my hair than getting work done. This kind of frustration puts me in a position to wear my hair up all the time. People tell me that if it's in my way all the time, cut it off and get a shorter style. That's just not going to happen, no way. I love my hair despite its situational nuisance.

Salons & Dye
If I want to go to a salon and get something expensive done to my hair such as highlights, dying, extreme styling etc... that bumps up the price because of the length of my hair. The more product and time they need the higher the bill is. I don't go to a salon frequently so I don't mind spending that kind of money but for someone who goes to a salon regularly this can probably burn a nice hole in their wallet.

Sweating
I know I'm a girl but I sweat like a dude, I swear. It could be dead of winter and I'm sweating like I just ran a marathon.  Having short hair gives the scalp and forehead/neck areas a better chance to breathe. Long hair is heavy and it covers up those areas allowing sweat to build up and collect until a breeze or air flow can pass into those places. Even if you put your hair up into a pony tail or bun, sweat still forms onto your scalp and it's just yucky.

Humidity & Frizzy
My hair is extremely long, thick and since I wear it up all the time I have a lot of broken strands and short wispies as I like to call them. It's really humid where I live and with humidity mixing into my hair type, it gets really frizzy sometimes. When I straighten my hair, it gets thin and a lot more manageable but when I leave it naturally wavy the frizz really stands out.

Dog Mode
Everyone sheds hair and that's to be expected but when you have long hair, the shedding is worse. It's not so much that the quantity of shedding hairs goes up it's the fact that these buggers can get tangled and knotted and attached to anything and everything. If I use a towel and my hair gets stuck on it, even if you wash that towel and dry it I guarantee the next person to use it will find a hair. We also have 3 cats & 2 dogs & 2 hamsters so between us and them, if you don't find some kind of hair on a clean towel, it's a miracle. Shedding hair can be annoying. Cleaning out a hairbrush isn't very time consuming but it's not very pretty to look at. I also don't think anyone in the house appreciates finding long hair  randomly in the shower and especially stuck in the sink or drain in the shower.

Brushing
My hair isn't extremely long, maybe 3/4ths of the way down my back? But when I'm brushing my hair I feel like Rapunzel and that it's never going to end. I usually part my hair evenly on both sides and brush out the tangles then flip it upside down and such. People with short hair can just run their fingers or a comb through it and move on with life.

Heavy
If you currently have long hair like I do, you can't really notice it but the next time you get a hair cut whether its 4 inches or 10 inches, you'll notice this extreme weight change where your head feels very light and weightless almost. It's a very nice feeling and you don't realize how much your hair weighs you down until it's gone!