Humans are messy, dirty creatures who spend a vast amount of time trying to hide that fact. Covering our smells is a billion dollar industry of soaps, perfumes, colognes, lotions and sprays; we've created a complex system that lets us believe our bodily waste can disappear. We scrub ourselves with stones and seacreatures, we remove hair, grow hair, color hair, cut hair, add hair.
I wonder if we ever consciously realize how frustrating it is to be under the impression that we are the be-all, end-all of creation, the pinnacle of all that is detailed perfection when we are just as gross as every other mammal. I think it'd be rather freeing to understand that almost all of what decorum tells us to hide is the very stuff that we simply are.
4 comments:
I see right through you. You don't feel like showering for the 5th day in a row and you want everyone else to be ok with it. Which I am. Just wanted to let you know, nothing gets by me Spooner.
You so know me!
(actually, I thought of it while cleaning showers, cabins, bathrooms etc. Other people are gross. Not me, it's the others.)
I think it would be funny if some folks started a billion-dollar corporation, but whose employees all subscribed to this life philosophy.
I think it would be funny if some folks started a billion-dollar corporation, but whose employees all subscribed to this life philosophy.
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