Many people have been asking me why I haven't shaved this week. Here's the answer, a day early for all you blog watchers.I grow a beard every December. There are two reasons for this: 1) my birthday is in December (16th to be exact) and 2) December marks the end of one year and beginning of the next. So, as I get older every December, I grow a beard to look even older.
Then, after wearing the beard for a month I become accustomed to seeing my reflection in the mirror with a beard. So when I shave it off at the end of December (just before the new year), I look younger when I look in the mirror. A kind of new and fresh start for the new year.
The picture with this post was taken in December 2003 at Suseong mot (수성못) in Daegu. 2003 was actually the last time that I grew the December beard b/c in 2004 I was living in Australia and decided to grow long hair instead of a beard.
1 comment:
I took this one to my webpage w/o ur permission, so r u going to sue me now? hahaha.(oh, not funny? then, sorry.) It's amazing that you have reasons for everything you do. How can you be so organized and confident like that? By the way, you look like Val Kilmer from the movie 'Saint' in this pic. haha. Be cool. Out!~
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