So Why Do I Shave My Legs? Spirituality in Razor Type

The Farm in Cornwall circa 1972

When we had a holiday break we constantly went to Cornwall in the South West of the British isles. My dad hated the generate, in reality he produced us leave London at 3 am to avoid the site visitors.

Cornwall is one particular of the wildest and visually passionate areas of England, we never have the mountains of Scotland and Wales but we do have the windswept, moors primary down to a wild (for us) and stormy sea.

On the next night time we were at the cottage I went into the toilet and noticed my dad’s shaving razor sitting down on the sink. I have no idea why but I picked it up and shaved the hair off my shins and from less than my arms.

I know that a ton of girls do this, but my only two female purpose models – mum and nan – had hardly ever shaved a whisker in their lives, in fact it arrived as a complete shock to them that I felt the need to do a thing so entirely nuts. All I can inform you is that it felt wrong to me to have that system hair. It just didn’t experience like me.

Certainly I took incredibly little see of this at the time, the only memory that impacts is my mum shopping for me some affordable razors to prevent me blunting dad’s razor blades. Why is it that women’s hair blunts razor blades more rapidly than the male beard? One of life’s mysterious imponderables I guess.

From that day onwards to this working day 43 decades afterwards I even now shave my shins and armpits, and it feels entirely correct to me to do so.

The other day the memory popped into my head and as I was pondering links started out forming to the philosophy I embrace – that we have all been right here right before and are spirit owning a human existence.

Despite the fact that it may possibly seem like a really small thing, rarely deserving of an article, it struck me how significant it was that anything culturally international to me felt so fully purely natural and right. So what prompted the unexpected selection?

I could only come up with a person rationalization. That I had, at yet another time, lived in a society wherever shaving body hair was usual exercise.

I you should not know what you make of this, but in the look for for spirituality and non secular connections it can be fantastic to glimpse at the human being you are and ask how considerably of you comes from the individuals and influences all over you? Are you totally a item of your past and your gene pool, or is there an element of you that, like me, has emerged entirely formed evidently all by alone?

It will make for fascinating musing in the lookup for the this means of everyday living and existence, even if it is generated by the hair on your legs.

Or is that spirituality from the armpit?