#11
I had wanted to share this with someone my whole life!
His eyebrows…
He was incredibly successful in his career, funny, and genuinely fun to be around. But there was something about his eyebrows that I could never understand. I could tell they were filled in, but… when someone already has eyebrows, why would they paint over them? Whenever we were eating, I’d find myself secretly watching his eyebrows, trying to figure them out. One day, while I was out of town for work, he came to visit me at my hotel. He said he had a headache. I told him, “Okay, I can massage your forehead and temples, it might help.” Then I said, “But let me cleanse your skin first.” I poured some micellar water onto a cotton pad and gently wiped his face. His eyebrows came off too… He did have eyebrows but they had been shaved. He hadn’t filled them in because he didn’t have any. He did have them… he had just shaved them off and drawn them back on. Why?? Of course, I didn’t say anything. He was lying there in front of me, eyebrowless 🤦🏻♀️ I gave him a head massage while quietly spiraling in my own thoughts. Then he went to the bathroom and came back out with eyebrows again. Which meant he carried an eyebrow pencil with him. For me, it wasn’t even the fact that he filled them in. It was the color. Who wants grey eyebrows? Anyway, because of the eyebrows, I could never quite give him the closeness he wanted.
