Shampoo...

I have wondered about this quite a few times whilst taking a shower; do we really need shampoo. Did more men go bald when there wasn’t any such thing as shampoo? Did none of the girls have the silky beautiful hair they show in shampoo ads? I don’t think so. It’s just another self imposed ‘necessity’ that reveals its true nature when you see people using shampoo on their dogs.

All that the Homo sapiens needed to live was made abundant in this earth. But of all the creatures that inhabit this planet, we were the only ones to want more. We chose to build a world in which we had to rely on things that were once not necessary, in which we had to impose limits that should not exist. Does that make humans the most intelligent of the living things on this planet? Did we lose something in this mindless pursuit of cutting ourselves further and further from the true nature of this world?

And now this alien world that we have built presents a bitter dilemma to us all. None of us is needed in it. We strive to repress this nagging thought that stands rooted in our subconscious…we work endless hours at dreary jobs…we try to gain chattels that will let us feel less empty…we try desperately to find someone who can affirm our individuality…and we waste our lives trying to seek pleasures that never truly satisfy. But none of us find the purpose, the meaning of our existence…the true nature of our individuality…something that seems so clear to every wolf in a pack…to every ant in a colony.