Date a Man who is Balding

Date a man who is balding. Date a man who has felt the pain of losing something special. Date him for he knows that he must care for what he has lest it slips out of his pores some day. Date him because he knows that even when you try to hold on to things too tight, they dwindle if they are not meant to stay. Date him for his maturity that shows not just in his receding hairline, but also in his acceptance of his loss with grace.

I know you’d want to date a man who reads; who knows his Shakespeare’s by heart and debates against the cultural disapproval of Rushdie till date. He’ll sip on a glass of wine and pretend to be artsy, but date him if he is balding. Date him if he will not just discuss, but actually end up looking like a Shakespeare or a Rushdie some day. Date him because he will know not just beauty in secularism as evidenced in Padma Lakshmi, but will also be a Salman through the way.

I know you’d want to date a man who sings; whose voice will charm your heart away. He’ll playback for a Ranbir or a Ranveer and make ladies swoon of all age. He’ll Sa Re Ga your Ma-Pa with a song in praise of the Lord, and express his love for you in front of friends at a Karaoke. But date him if he is balding. Date him because the lights at a club shine brighter on a bald pate. Date him because Himesh’s career plummeted with a hair transplant and Mohit Chauhan still rules the air waves.

I know you’d want to date a guy who is funny; whose jokes will crack you up on a gloomy day. He will know stand up, sarcasm and word play. But date him if he is balding. Date him because he’ll know how to play the charm of self-deprecation with a smile and shoot jokes from the top of his head. He’ll know that a pun falls flat if you follow it up with a “pun intended”, and he may have left it hanging in the previous sentence to be picked up by his bae.

Date a man who is balding; whose friends call him Akshaye Khanna or Anupam Kher. Date him for he will lovingly run his fingers through your hair than preen his own even on your tenth date. Date him because he doesn’t hide, he doesn’t lie; he just accepts beauty in its own way. And if you ever wish yourself to be the date of a Greek God, don’t forget that he has a halo at the end of his pate.

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