I would like to retract what I said earlier about smearing honey all over your face and then bragging about it being a sign of bravery. Nathan is right. The two have nothing to do with each other. I crave your forgiveness in asserting such a outrageous claim. I've been pondering all night about how such an idea as wiping honey across your face in the morning came about. Perhaps it was a young couple having breakfast together and as often happens one of them was a neat eater and the other kept getting honey everywhere and to hide their embarrassment at being in such a sticky state they casually mentioned "How good honey masks were for the complexion," and connected the honey that had dribbled across their chin and around their mouth up over their nose and cheeks and cleaned off their sticky hands on their forehead.
And after breakfast as they washed the dishes they reflected on how nice it actually felt and later after washing it off - noticed how much more radiant their skin was. And made a mental note to themselves to try it again sometime. And then used the incident later as a graceful way of responding to conversational pleasantries.
"How are you today?"
"Well, after the honey treatment I couldn't be better!
"My skin feels so soft! And notice how radiantly it shines!"
And so concludes the probable beginnings of the honey mask.
(I purposely left out "he or she" so that it wasn't a gender biased story.)
I also picked up from Nathan's post that I was being ... um, I was being ... maybe I doing some gender stereotyping - previously. And I shouldn't. So I'm sorry.
It could have been a man or women that invented the honey mask.
6 comments:
that is too funny Julie! I'll have to peruse your blog at a later time - maybe this weekend while I'm lounging around at the conference in Banff.
Have you written any short stories? I think you could if you put your head into it.
Aww, Christy...you're a sweetie! Hey don't you have some short stories or novels? Have you been published yet?
You should go into journalism.
I have no idea where the honey mask idea came from, although I have heard that honey can do some pretty amazing things - like serve as burn treatment or an antiseptic. As for being a strong man to pick up a honey mask - I think it has nothing to do with strength. Some things are just girl things, and should stay that way. I have yet to see a girl labeled weak because she isn't into video games, cars, or sports, so why should it run the other way? That's my two bits.
You have a very wild imagination for so early in the morning!! ;)
I think a honey mask is just too messy for me, so i'll leave it to the adventerous ones..
Naw, I've never had enough follow-through to actually write more than anecdotes or very short stories. I tried taking a creative writing class in college, and ended up failing it *L*
It's still an aside dream of mine. I love to write. I've always wanted my name across the cover of a book or under the title of a paper in an academic journal.
Anyway, my long-standing excuse for never sitting down and writing anything concrete is that I'm too busy. I will hold to that excuse until I can no longer deny the reality that it's my attention span that's really holding me back. I get into something and start writing it and then I get distracted by a seemingly bigger and better idea.
hmm... one day
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