Looks can be deceiving, right? oh so very true! especially in a judge a book by the cover world, even if they know its wrong. The very people that have the blessing of a different look or background or even nationality have got it right. To name a few examples before I jump into my subject at hand so we can see how far deep we have dug ourself into prejudice and racist brewing while we know it is not right in every religion. Please note that when i put examples or incidents of such nature I am not immune to these social plagues we have to wash off.

Imagine with me the following and how you treat them first hand:

• The Asian( filipino) looking Saudi?
• The Black Saudi CEO of a top 500 company wearing torn down jeans at the mall?
• The Baby faced qualified engineer hired to save a company?
• The  European looking original Saudi that takes your ethnic jokes while you socialize at the local coffee-shop without showing you he understood?
• The worn down old humble lady who happens to be the business tycoon just trying to be herself at the airport economy check in?
• The young techie who happens to own a company of his own at the age of 21?
• The really stinky looking bedouin who enters a Bank and you can’t wait till he leaves, only to find out after your treatment he is sitting on a balance of 600,000,000 Riyals?

That and many examples always get me thinking and worried about how I treat people and how people treat other people. If you are mistaken once or twice then OK, it happens. But if you see yourself drifting with the herd, stop and imagine the opposite and what these poor individuals went through, for nothing but being themselves??

Now my two story heroes are both considered by far Baby faces, both are not older than 34 years, actually one is 29 & the other going 35. Both of them are really clever engineers, both considered street smart, great conversationalists and thinkers, extremely goal oriented and deliver! They are both considered close brothers of mine, one actually is.

As one was growing up in his later college years he was taken for a kid, a high school kid, at one time one of my friends met him and asked him how school was, I think he added  you cute little darling” my brother smacked him a quick one” finished engineering school this year”. He has always been in situations where he is considered a young boy, with his no mustache droopy eyes face I can see why, add some freckles and a dozen little beauty marks and your never gonna guess!

He would make me crack up when he is talking to any service provider or sales man who take him lightly and try to give him the usual BS answers only to be challenged in the very business they operate, he comes armed with powerful knowledge and admirable intelligent questioning.We have had our laughs when people come to him in the office and find he is my right hand.

After many years of proving he was and older version of that 80 model, he woke up one day and found he had a gift! That gift was a Baby face, he has by far taken down many people on a trip to la la land with his cute acute looks. Being intelligent has got nothing to do with looks.

Some of his victims include major Banks, major companies, major hospital staff, major businessmen and women, older generation know-it-alls, service providers gone crazy, hotels, some of my friends,me.

Today he manages his own business and is frequently head hunted for other jobs, god bless that baby face!

The other is a more street smart engineer, with a face of a young teenager closing in to his first digit after twenty.He also has a warm and gentle smile, very welcoming face, not the aggressive ugly kind, he was an A student with all his play and brat like attitude, he comes from a fine family and is well brought up to the highest standards. He has pursued his way to the top of the corporate ladder and has managed people by the hundreds at a major top 50 company in Saudi Arabia.

He makes me look old, very old, yet he makes people fall prey to his looks, not knowing what  kind of person he is until I spill the beans on his age and professional background, he is also a great listener.

Beware of the silent ones I say, for they know more than you in many cases. He is up against a world that judges his professionalism by the number of years he carries and not by his performance, he proved them wrong and continues to fly, up that is!

Me & him enjoy the faces we get when his age is revealed, and then they suddenly all change the treatment he was getting, as if to make up for that bad first impression, funny.

In his early years he must have faced the faceless judges of society and had his fair share of fun on their behalf. The way people respect him is a force he threw upon him based on his capabilities, knowledge and great treatment to people, he deserves every bit of success he will endure, for he is good, I respect you both.

So what he looks young? so what he does not look the part? what is the part? did you figure it out in your little mind and made prejudgement’s on how people should act and look, should their disadvantages be blamed or favored? what is right Mr.right? the way you will be when you make it? sorry, they figured success out before you did and have taken that slot, find another idea and another victim to pick on.

Make no mistake, baby faces mean Grown up business.Here is my final say on people with baby faces: I think they are very lovable people, with humongous hearts and feelings, they know what the others don’t, they listen well, they forgive fast, they love life, they live love, they understand to be understood, they are well educated people, they seek solutions to everyday problems without the fuss, they thrive on education and have very few friends, it s only because they want to be themselves. They can be friends forever, they always are there when you really need them, they did not mean to take advantage of their disadvantage.

I guess I never had that option, or did long ago, and lost it… if only I could, I would, I would go out on a mission to find every person looking down on me and make his day. I also guess that’s why I don’t have that Baby face charisma, its only for the people who have baby hearts too

Watch out for those Baby faces, one out of ten is considered lethal, otherwise go ahead you might have made a brother from another mother, guaranteed!

To all the Baby face people in the house, Massive respect!

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com