Idiosyncrasies

I lived in the USA over 20 years and it was on the last year that someone told me that, in the US, men who don’t shave their chest hair are considered homosexuals.  I had the opposite idiosyncrasy and I am no longer surprised of the wrong impression that I projected.  I always hated my hairy chest and I would have shaven it if I knew the idiosyncrasies in the US; especially, that the graying hairs started to overshadow the black streaks.  When I came definitively to Lebanon I started shaving my chest and the reverse idiosyncrasy dominated; I guess that I would be under suspicion no matter where I am! Speaking of missed communication and wasted opportunities.

Another example of idiosyncrasy comes to mind; dad keeps the nail of his left little finger long, mainly for nose work. I kept mine long for teeth jobs.  Again, on the last year in the USA my Real Estates partner warned me that long nails of the little finger projects addiction to cocaine.  Without realizing it, I was fenced in to failure.  Early exposure to the facets of living is the key to man’s problems, and sex education and exposure come first in the list.  I do believe that “primitive” communities are far more developed socially for raising their progenitors.