“Look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp” was the slogan of a popular razor blade company a few years ago.
There is an apparent indifference by many males of our country who do not wish to look, feel or be sharp. Scruffy is “in.” Becoming a mobile “fire hazard” is okay.
What can be the attraction of professional athletes, public officials, businessmen, labourers and some high school students to imitate a hairy-faced appearance?
What is the accomplishment in cultivating on one’s face that which grows profusely wild on other parts of the body? Perhaps it is a mask from behind which one can perform otherwise unacceptable expressions without being detected. Or has it become necessary to possess a self-constructed and personal “soup-strainer”?
Maybe is it because, having a kind nature, there are those who feel it a charitable gesture to provide a home for small vermin, insects and bacteria.
C’mon guys, clean up and look, feel and be sharp.
If this offends some, well . . . now we’re even.
Bert LaBuick, St. Albert
