> moustache identity crisis? How many... A. have moustaches? > B. have shaved them in 2008? > Of those that have kept them, what were your reasons why? > Of those that have shaved them, what were your reasons why?
When everyone around you sports one, and only the ladies dont have one, a person whose facial hair starts sprouting ;-) tends to retain it. (as it happens in this part of the world) Similarly when nobody around you retains it, you also tend to shave it off. Those that dont - do it for various reasons - the most common being laziness. Some people relate it to masculinity particularly in india. And I know many who cant get it up but sport a large moustache. OK now personally, I started off by keeping it. It was so common - everybody around had one. It was itchy. So I trimmed it. It was still itchy. So I finally just shaved it (a few years back). Gradually people who were used to seeing you with a moustache adjusted to this new look (including the one looking at the mirror reflection). Now I cant stand even a few days' growth. After saving for many months, I finally got it all shaved by laser light repeatedly for many months(very painful). Now only the white hair continue to grow. And those few can be shaved off easily. I now consider it most unhygenic to retain facial hair. Also *I think* I look better without them. Frankly most of those that keep them (facial hair) do so to maintain a show of so called manly looks. And also to follow some unwritten dictat from family elders in some sort of culturally correct way. That made all the more sense to me to shave it all off. Since I have this natural tendency to do the exact opposite of what I am being told anyway (or being told is the right way), just for the heck of it, to be a rebel and to prove that my upside down way is also right and even better. I have a problem with people who have a mind*set*. The whole fun is - in being different, and then gleefully take in, the shock and dropped jaws of aghast people, who told you, how foolish you are to do this, when the whole world is doing that. Lukhman.
