Society dictates that clothing worn needs to be washed. It doesn’t matter if you wore it around the house, to work, or even just to bed. If it’s worn, it needs to be washed. Why has our community become so afraid of dirt and germs that every single thing needs to be washed regardless of if its dirty or not? It could stem from the eternity long battle of man versus disease, from the annual epidemics we suffer annually. Swine flu, avian bird flu, even AIDS. It doesn’t matter if you’re nowhere near any of these diseases or sicknesses every human fears sickness and disease more than anything else in the world. For thousands of years mankind lived in the muck always covered in dirt. Could this be the reason mankind showers almost every single night? Could they fear falling back onto the ground covered in manure? This brings about interesting thoughts about mankind’s natural selfishness. Everyday we use billions of water washing clean clothes and removing the tiniest specks of dirt from our bodies. However I am aware that if we didn’t use this water it would simply go to the other people living in our wasteful country.
Millions of people would give anything they can get just three seconds of the water that surrounds your clean body while you belt out Don’t Stop Believing in your shower. Society or Human nature pressures us into never being dirty if we can help it. Our clothes or bodies are required to be clean at all times by this demanding cruel society. Society frowns upon you not owning a phone, living without electricity or even just now owning a car. I've walked down the street, seen a homeless man, and continued walking. I’ve had money in my pocket, and didn’t pay the man a second thought. Why? Why do we believe these less fortunate people are to be cast out? It returns to one thing alone; we fear their dirt and grime. This isn’t the first time we have cast people just for just being dirty or weak, Ancient Greeks killed weak babies, countries in the dark ages cast out lepers without a second thought. And in the modern day, when people think we have so moved on from the barbaric days, we still cast out those who we think could make us sick.
This awful society wont be stopped or at the bare minimum fixed, unless we break through generations of selfish and greedy habits. That’s what this all roots to. Selfish human nature. No matter how selfless people really are, they’re just selfish. I don’t care what happens, if you might get sick you will do what helps you in a heartbeat. But there’s medicine, soap, hell there’s even purell. But nobody cares. They run at the very first sight of germs. Anyone with access to running water runs to their showers to clean the germs off themselves. But nine times out of ten there are no germs. All the wash off themselves is any bit of human decency they may have left.
Sickness is scary yes. But if you run from another human being, one in need, then I'm ashamed to call you the same species as myself. And I've done this as well. We all have. Now whether it be god or evolution or whatever higher power there may be, they gave man free will. We have been given the ability to help our fellow men, but instead we simply abuse that power. We fear those without homes because we fear the germs living on them. But there is a simple fix. If just ten percent of the human population helped one person. That is millions of people who would be getting help who were previously feared by their so-called brethren. Feared by you and me.
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