I just want to go on the record and say that I personally would rather not have a mustache. I would rather not look a bad flashback to the 80s. This is one of my many lessons I am learning on "cross cultural communications" You know....fitting in with the people you are trying to reach.
All of you "youth people" know what I am talking about. You guys get to wear cargo khaki shorts and flip-flops and do the cool little "front tuck" with all of you designer T-shirts that say something off the wall and look like they've been wash a hundred times before you even buy them.
I am wearing pants, button down shirts and growing out mustaches...... I am realizing that life here ain't a walk in the park. I am just commenting on how funny we are as people. I didn't mind dressing like a youth or a college student when I worked with them. Why? Because I was in style! I could walk into Wal-Mart and not look like a state trooper!
But all of a sudden I am here and I am freaking out because I have to wear a mustache. Its really not a big thing you know? I just have a mustache and I fit in that much better. But this has been a great lesson for me on whether or not I want to be "cool" in my own American perspective of what "cool" is, or do I want to do all I can, in speech, deed, or dress to knock down as many barriers as I can between the people here and myself. This has been a tool in the hands of the LORD to show me my selfishness and dependance on what other people think. I pray that I will let the LORD make me "the fool" in order to make Himself known to these people.
I feel the mustache is just the first of the "anti-cool" things I am going to have to embrace in order to be effective, so when we get back to the States sooner or later... Please don't treat us like fashion rejects. Just hug us and realize that we......well.....are out of touch.
P.S. I know that my noise is crooked. I, nor my family, nor the doctors have a clue on when or why that happened. In Arabic the word for this is, "hayk" (that's just the way it is).
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I liked the stache so much that I started growing one out myself...I look good and all the girls are smiling at me now;)
C, that's an amazing 'stache. It's still in the "dirty stache" stages, but I can see it improving with time.
Nice stache. Reminds me of Matthew McConnehy (however you spell it) in Dazed & Confused. Go for the full beard. I wore a thobe in public for the first time today ... everyone seemed to love it!
Andy
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