Shower Thoughts: Day 1

As is good marketing practice, this first day comes to you with two thoughts for the price of one.

1) Ask yourself this: what can possibly happen in the confines of the domestic shower to cause one to question one's identity? Well, this morning the safety bubble of the shower was broken. What ensued was an identity crisis brought on by the seemingly innocent observation that I always start my shower by washing my left armpit. Allow me to elaborate. I consider myself to be a well-rounded, spontaneous kind of person. I tend to rebel against rules and prescribed patterns of behaviour, hence, the observation that I've been stuck in a routine for some time worried me to the point of wondering: what am I actually like? Is my ususal spontaneity merely a psychological trick I perform on myself in order to hide from myself the reality of the left-armpit-washing seeker of constancy. Or, worse, am I actually in the habit of being spontaneous? As you can see, these questions threaten to undermine the fundamentals of my self- respect and ego, hence, without further ado, I employed man's greatest weapon against deep thought, and distracted myself with something trivial.

2) Or is it trivial? I'll let you decide. I simply made the observation that the shower is one of very few places in which one experiences having a warm face (other examples may include during the use of a hairdryer and whilst wearing a balaclava). In fact, since being a foetus, I can't recall any other time when I've enjoyed the sensation so much... So, please- next time you take a shower, warm your face and think back to the warm-faced days of old.