Blame it on Devdas

It all started when I was chatting with a friend at about 12:30am and telling that I plan to go and have a shave for the next day and she was rightly perplexed.
Shave at 12:30???
Well in my defense my logic was that I was not getting any sleep and I might as well shave and sleep an extra 15minutes in the morning (who doesn’t love to sleep an extra 15mins in the morning?)
Her expected response was Oh God!!... in the native tongue of course (speaking of which, have you ever noticed how easy its for people to type in English yet when u read it, its totally in the native tongue. Not only is it easy to type, its also easy for the other person to read….but oh anyway, back to where we were!!).
Well so I went into the bathroom and stared at the half beard on my face (it certainly was much more than a simple stubble, it was a proper 6 day half beard-that’s what we can call it) at about 1am and very wide awake at that point. But somehow the thought of splashing my face with water at that wee hour wasn’t enticing (yaa like its Bips in Dhoom-2 calling me.. *rolls eyes*. Oh Btw don’t waste your time on Dhoom-2, its nothing more than a Captain’s movie. You might as well download and leer at the person u wish to leer).
So with that half beard I roll into my bed and try to sleep…. and for some reason I just couldn’t sleep at all. It was then I realized that since its already pretty late, there is a very great chance I would wake up late and was wondering whether to sport a bearded look. On that thought, I went about speculating the reaction from the people. Some would just ask the explanation for the beard but yet a majority of people’s reaction would be—love failure??
Oh what nonsense?? Can’t a guy just sport a beard for the heck of it or to change his look?? BLAME IT ALL ON DEVDAS.. that’s right the lovelorn drunkard who destroyed his life and brought a bad name for the beard.
At this juncture I was trying to think of the explanation as to why people would assume so. That would most likely be that there are not much famous personalities who sport a beard and walk around. Even Albert Einstein wore a proper shaved looks. Speaking of the man… he could not spare time to set his the now famous unkempt hair, but had enough time to shave his beard (which apparently takes more time no matter how bad your hair can be). So right now my two attempts to Google (trust the Google company to take its name and coin it as a verb and also get accepted in the dictionary. Orkut is another example… anyway before I digress.. I do have to agree I digress a lot. Well getting back) up some famous personalities with beard has resulted in pretty much a negative response.
Oh well I did remember Dr.Manmohan Singh, but he is a Sikh and almost ever Sikh sport one (again digress…. I guess it’s in the genes of the Sikhs to be able to grow a full beard!! How does the bloody testosterone in a Sikh know that it needs to have more hairy characteristics?). Also how bad was I to forget Abraham Lincoln. I am wondering if we should take a poll around the country of USA and ask them to name a famous person with a beard, it would be fun to see how many people can recall Abe Lincoln. Tom Cruise had a beard for a short while, but that was not consistent.
So anyway as u can see, that not many famous people with beard are/were around, which brings us back to….. why did the poor beard get such a bad name as to be associated with lovelorn poor men?? I guess we should go about and try to change that conception.

Need to add a Disclaimer that I am talking of a full beard, not goatee or French beard which got pretty famous. There are of course many more types- the Sideburns, Van Dyck, chinstrap and what not. Search Wikipedia (This is not yet a verb) for more answers.