Hair Raising

Read a news item recently and it was quite hair-raising.
According to reaserchers [they do have a lot of money these days for such fancy researches]; female lions do not prefer [for mating purposes] male lions with full grown manes. Surprising isn't it? One would think the full maned lion symbolised virility and manliness to the extreme. But not so, according to the research.... lions with full grown, lush manes are actually past their prime and lionesses know this and prefer ones without fully grown manes....

Frankly, it is one of those stunning pieces of information that one can actually live without... publicly but privately sets you thinking isn't it.. Unless of course due to some freak of evolution lionesses are looking for younger and younger lions to perfect their offsprings and ensure their survival in an increasingly hostile environment!

For me the research was a personal debacle.... A few months back I noticed a healthy growth of hair on my ears and also noted that the hair inside the nose was getting denser... There was also more that usual sprouting on the hands and the legs. I justifiably got the impression that my day had come... I was on my way to ultimate manhood and of course weaving a couple of fantasies around some stunning women...

But that was before I read this innocuous piece of report tucked away in an obsecure corner of a newspaper... Since then my fantasies fuelled by the growth of hair has fallen flat on the ground.. What I thoughtto be the arrival of ultimate manhood was really the beginning of my middle age.... I am now a lion with a full mane... all dressed up and nowhere to go... This can be really depressing....