Some annoying seatmates

It’s always good to watch women with long and well maintained hair, and I don’t miss even a single chance to appreciate women with luscious knee length hair. But even beauty can be annoying, if you cannot handle it with care. This is the message that I got a after a long two hour irritating journey from the city to my hometown yesterday. As usual I boarded the bus from the bus stop and took a seat in the second row, close to an epitome of every man's fantasy, with her impressive tresses left untied, floating in the wind. I was busy getting my ticket, and didn’t pay much attention to the blonde beauty sitting next to me. But I was forced to notice her in a minute or two, when her locks started flowing in the opposite direction, finding its way into my eyes and mouth, literally trespassing into them uncouthly. Though I said I am an ardent fan of women with long tresses, mine is quite too short, till my shoulders, mainly because of the lack of time to maintain my curls. When it’s short, it’s easily manageable, and while travelling I can cover it with a stylish scarf, to doll-up myself, and prevent my hair from finding its way to others’ mouth. I told my fellow passenger aka ‘Miss Beautiful Hair’ to take control of her naughty locks, and she was ‘merciful’ enough to say sorry, and to put her hair towards the other side of her shoulder. What a relief!

After getting rid of the ‘intruders’, I was almost on the verge of getting a good sleep, when I felt something irritatingly moving all over my face. Woke up in anger, and I saw aka ‘Miss Beautiful Hair’ who was still looking out and watching the greenery, when her dear long locks started enjoying the beauty of my eyes and mouth again. Irritatingly inside, yet pleasingly outside, I requested her to take control of the ‘intruders‘, and once again she ‘kind-heartedly’ said sorry for the second time, and took her naught curls away. I prayed, “Not again my god!” It seems god missed my prayers, as, it didn’t take even 10 minutes for her locks to come back, and stroke me all-overs my face. I was very annoyed, but soon felt my annoyance is not going to help me get-rid-of this nuisance. I turned to her with a little 'wicked' smile, and started ‘divulging’ my ‘knowledge’ and ‘secrets’ about healthy hair, as if I am a hair expert, and warned about the aftershocks of leaving hair open while travelling, and shared those inflated after-effects including never ending split ends and hair falling problems that she will have if she leaves tresses untied while travelling. Thank god, that worked wonders, and you know what? Till I reached my hometown, I was extremely comfortable, and felt as if her locks almost forgot the way to my eyes and mouth!

PS – To all my dear female readers - Please don’t leave tresses untied when you travel. There is nothing more irritating than someone else’s hair stroking your face with ultimate pleasure.

Being 'Manly'

The title of the article was so funny that I couldn’t stop laughing nonstop for almost minutes together.  It read ‘Are Modern Men Manly Enough?’, and had along with it the photo of a man getting a facial & a pedicure. For a moment, I felt as if I am looking at the picture of a woman, sitting in a parlor & getting herself beautified. I know that manly doesn’t mean just beefy - bulged with muscles, but it doesn’t mean truly ‘androgynic ‘either. Looking at it from a woman’s viewpoint, generally, the word ‘manly’ has some really vivid corporeal images that most of the women have been carrying in their head at all time. To mention a few, he is the kind of guy with that thick  yet well shaped mustache, dusky skinned, with a little hairy limbs and broader shoulders, who can do some of those hardest tasks easily with his strong hands.  One knows very well that they don’t match with the way modern men are. Or should say it’s almost impossible to find someone akin-to masculine concepts. 

Oddly paradoxical to these images, today’s man goes around clad in skinny low-waist jeans & body hugging t-shirts, spends inordinate amount time at the gym to make sure that his waist doesn’t expand beyond 32 inches , visit beauty parlors for pedicures and facials, and take too-much care for ‘pinpoint perfect’ & metro- sexual looks. Taking inspiration of those ‘A listed’ actors who are ready to do even bird poop facials & wax their chests to get themselves in to the skin of a typical metro - sexual dude, nowadays  men love to have clean shaven face, waxed chest,& faultless hair, making them look more womanish than manly. But there’s something that keeps one wondering? Are these exfoliated, ideally carved faces & its paradigmatic perfection what women really want & look for in men? And should men really go so far to get the ‘immaculate’ metro -sexual looks?  This kind of obsession is almost that equal of not being “a man”.

Many of the folks preen in front of the mirrors for minutes together being too over conscious about their ‘beauty’ looks than the ‘handsome’ one. This metro-sexual syndrome has actually brought along with it ‘skinnier, trendier and prettier’ umpteen ‘womanly looking men’ with more or less androgynous appearances; and everything done in the name of hygiene. There’s nothing wrong in being hygienic, but men should never go overboard and cripple their looks.

For a man to be truly manly, he has to look totally normal, with the very raw appeal which he is naturally gifted with. World would call him man, real man, and the others….