Smelly things

So I was in the shower today, and I thought to myself, "Why do I stink so bad?" It's something I've been thinking about for a while now but today it's really bugging me. My ass smells like, well, ass. All the time. Even after I just shower. I dry the inside of the cheeks, smell the towel to see how I did in there, and BAM! Ass stink! I was washing my ass today and I was practically fucking my asshole with the bar of soap but when I toweled off, it still smelled! Holy mother of fuck, it's annoying. Same with my armpits, too. I was scrubbing my armpits so hard it hurt from my soap-covered nails raking across them. Smelled them and they still stink like sweat and onions. Why? No matter how hard I scrub or how much soap I use, I stink! It's like I'm forever unclean or something. Is it because I don't shower every day? Which is stupid, by the way.

Here's something else: this whole obsession with cleanliness is really stupid. North American medicine is so concerned over prevention of illness, it's just silly. Hand sanitizers lining the inside and outside of buildings, TV commercials pumping propaganda into the minds of the fucking moronic general public, who lap up anything and everything they're presented with and who have no sense of individual thought and autonomy. "Oh no, I don't want to get sick! It's so icky and prevents me from living my effectively automatic existence!" or "I don't want little Suzy getting sick from those dirty MacArthur kids at school!" Please, do everyone a favour and just kill yourselves. I agree that in most cases, a prevention-based strategy is the best approach for dealing with problems. But when it comes to dealing with pathogens, unless it's something deadly like HIV, fuck off and deal with it. Stop shoveling antibiotics down your throats like it's candy. Quit obsessively washing your hands like some deranged psychopath. Just learn to live with it and stop worrying about getting sick. I prefer to take a more European approach to illness and infection. Rather the sterility and prevention, Europe's culture of medicine focuses on the body as a part of the of the environment around it. A philosophy of adaptation and harmony, if you will. Not keeping clean 24/7 allows the body to adapt to the pathogens it will inevitably come into contact with, thereby strengthening the immune system. When something does infect you, the effects are drastically less powerful than with someone who is obsessed with cleanliness. I believe that I serve as a prime example. I rarely get sick. Maybe once a year, perhaps less. At university, I had two roommates (and the girlfriend of one of them who was quarantined in our apartment) who came down with nasty cases of the swine flu. They were puking and weak and bedridden. Me? I was fine. I didn't get sick, I continued on my merry way and laughed and laughed. Now I am not the healthiest person out there. Far from it, actually. The bulk of my diet consists of pizza pockets, chips, chocolate, and Pepsi. I do zero exercise. I am fat as all holy hell. But my immune system is the bomb. Perfectly healthy people get sick and suffer and I don't. I love it.

That's it for now! :D

- K