Growing Gracefully
Circa 2008 AD
My 10 year son happily
announced ( sic ) dad you can now
travel by air to nanoos house !.
You've become a senior citizen, don’t they offer heavy
discounts to senior citizens !.( Advertisers rejoice ,kiddies read serious
stuff too )
I meet lots of people
during the course of the day, lots of
conversations take place- serious, mundane, lively, important
,jovial, trivial etc .People never fail to
comment on any noticeable change
in my anatomy.
However I discovered that
people never ever mention about my
newly acquired strands of Grey mane.
And I
noticed that guys senior &
my peers alike have jet black hair
- course no prizes for guessing why
!.
In
retrospect I realized that almost every
guy in his thirties & above has
been a loyal follower of hair dyes -
yes the modern day elixir of virility
. I was not aware of this
gospel truth until I
entered the periphery of
this league.
No wonder hair dyes companies
have proliferated & are laughing all their way to the
banks. YES ,
the guys senior &
my peers alike have jet black hair
- course no prizes for guessing why
!.
People really hate to
discuss things done by them under the
veil.
Back home the hot topic
of discussion across the dinning table is WHETHER OR
NOT should I dye the hair. My Charming
Wife of fifteen years tells
me in private, be rich like that
beer/airlines baron ( you surely know who)
& no one will notice the Grey
mane . I surely seemed to be
convinced by that statement , that ordinary
looking baron escorted
by voluptuous ladies (
always ) has
his pictures splashed in all
society magazines & Page 3 obediently
( pun intended )
The million dollar question
is until then what?. My adolescent
daughter insists that I should dye
ASAP. She tells me don't blame us
that we didn't warn you
if people look at mom & me
and then comment " look
that old man has such lovely
daughters" !
Right now am in a
dilemma , its hair dyes vis a vis henna
, Since I am given to understand
that hair dyes are carcinogenic &
hennaing would make me appear like a
quintessential moslem guy
So right now its status
quo at the risk of being
called a father of two pretty girls
& a grandfather to a naughty
little boy. Amen
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