Facial Heir

Its been a while but...

The moustache is a masculine facial appendage that I refuse to wear. I have come to this decision partly due to the associations in my mind between the common, though not predominant, choice of this form of keratin fashioning among men of my native land, Kerala, and their lecherous, partisan, pseudo-Leftist ideologies. I also refuse to sport a beard…for no particular reason.

The irony behind these decisions is the fact that the sparse growth on my cheeks can only be likened to a home loan repayment: it arrives in installments. Being well past puberty, this can only be attributed to a genetic propensity for scanty facial hair. I couldn’t grow side-burns even if I wanted to.

Jesus is a guy who seemed to have no problem in this particular area. I have never seen a picture of the man without a generous crop of hair all over his benevolent face. I bet it itched.

It’s funny how so many draw comfort from the images of this man who lived so long ago, and may not have had a beard at all…For all we know, he may have had one of those little Charlie Chaplin moustaches…I hear they were common in Germany during the late 30s...you know the one…