@uncledoomer It sucks because you can tell he actually has elite or near elite facial hair genetics (probably ~99th percentile?) but simply doesn’t know how to style it.
The way forward is not denying yourself alcohol or sex or social media or whatever, “embracing religion,” etc, in a vacuum, it’s denying yourself identification with those things and living your life “as if” — as if you are nothing and no one instead of a total slave to your internal monologue