It's a well-known scenario when a young man or even a middle aged one can be seen feeling distraught because a lack of facial hair has diminished his standing in the world as a male. But as our parents often say, we have no idea about what's best for us and here's a couple of shocking changes that will make you, a beard wanting bucko, rethink his greatest desire.

DID YOU LIKE EATING?

Eating is not only a fundamental biological need for living things, it's also one of the strongest and unhealthiest warriors against most of the curve balls life throws at us. Beards make the eating situation a little difficult to say the least. Did you like burgers? Well, you can still have them but make sure you're either alone or you don't mind being stared at like you're some uncivilised creature. Anything that can dribble down your chin will dribble down into your beard and while a battalion of tissue paper will help you look presentable, you'll smell cheese on your face all day. It's nice at first but when the stuff starts to cake and it doesn't smell of cheese any more, it's a rather bad feeling.

HAIR! HAIR EVERYWHERE!

Hair fall is a concern for an overwhelming majority of people and it's pretty bad when the hair is coming from only one place. The thing with a long flowing, or scruffy beard is it takes almost as much maintenance as the hair on your head. If you were used to getting up in the morning to a pillow full of fallen soldiers from your head, you will now have to get used to them being everywhere. If your are a poor soul like yours truly who sleeps with his face down, you'll start having nightmares after you wake up, and spend a big chunk of your morning making most of your beard point towards one general direction instead of seventy three.

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOUR AGE 

You think you have an idea about your place in this world when a random stranger on the street you'd have normally called 'aunty' calls you 'bhaiya' and means it. Random strangers will shock you from time to time, but they are random strangers. When the last person on earth you wanted to call you 'bhaiya' goes ahead and does the unspeakable and the kid next door moves from 'bhaiya' to 'uncle', it really puts things into perspective. When you look at the mirror at the end of a long day and look for the baby faced weirdo you used to be, you contemplate shaving it all off but you can't, because….

YOU'RE STUCK LIKE THIS 

Although you might feel the urge to shave your beard off and if it's your first time you might even go ahead and do it, but the thing with people is that they don't like change. If your friends and family have grown used to you looking that way, they will laugh at you when you lose your beard. They'll call you names, the most common of which translates to a 'skinned chicken', and the your half blind friend with the huge glasses will do so unintentionally). The worst part is, whatever you expected to look like after you shave is not at all going to be similar to what you'll end up looking like, it'll be a far more bloated and colourful version of it, the colours being the grey and green of your shaved skin. So when the second time comes around and you feel like shaving, you won't. You're stuck.