A confident commitment to facial hair meets the genuine unpredictability of actual growth
An Ambitious Commitment Undermined by Genuine Unpredictability
A Sixth Former’s confident decision to grow out a proper beard ahead of his final term, undertaken with what he describes as “genuine optimism about how it would eventually turn out,” has instead produced results he now admits are “considerably patchier and less evenly distributed than I’d hoped, in a way that’s honestly become rather hard to ignore.” The attempt, several weeks into its intended growth period, has left the boy with what one housemate diplomatically called “a genuinely valiant effort, undermined somewhat by biology simply not cooperating as hoped.”
A Growth Pattern That’s Refused to Even Out
Despite his continued commitment to the project, several visible gaps in the growth pattern have remained stubbornly uneven throughout the attempt, a reality the boy has taken with reasonably good humour, admitting that “I genuinely thought this would just fill in properly given enough time, and at this point I’m starting to accept that might simply not be how this is going to go.” His housemates have offered a range of unsolicited but well-meaning suggestions, none of which have produced any noticeable improvement in the actual pattern of growth.
A Decision Point Now Genuinely Approaching
With his final term progressing and the beard showing little sign of the evenness he had originally hoped for, the boy admits he is “genuinely weighing whether to persevere further or simply accept defeat and start fresh,” a decision his housemates have offered plenty of, largely unhelpful, opinions on. “Half of them think I should keep going out of principle,” he noted, “and the other half think I should have given up weeks ago, which honestly isn’t helping me decide anything.”
A Project Still Very Much Undecided
Future Leaders understands the boy has given himself one further fortnight to decide the beard’s ultimate fate, a self-imposed deadline several housemates are treating with considerably more interest than the situation probably warrants.
A Commitment Admired, Whatever the Actual Result
Whatever he ultimately decides, several housemates say they have genuinely admired the sheer persistence behind the attempt, one summing up the general sentiment simply as “the actual result leaves something to be desired, but you’ve got to respect the commitment to seeing it through this far regardless.” His parents, seeing a photograph of the attempt for the first time, reportedly offered a diplomatically worded but clearly unconvinced response. He has, at least, promised to send an updated photograph whenever a final decision is actually reached. His housemaster has offered no formal opinion, though several colleagues suspect he is quietly rooting for a swift resolution one way or the other.
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For further reading in a similar spirit, see The Onion and Private Eye.
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