Clean Freak

I think I'm a clean freak. It's not me, it's just that I've been brought up that way. Especially the importance of having to shower. My mother will insist on at least two showers a day. And so I have grown up to adopt the habit. So I'm not exactly into the full-blown stage of being a clean freak, perhaps only in the initial stages, still in time for a change.

As you grow up, you kinda comprehend more things. Things that you'll just know from everyday life, and not cos your mother told you so. I also adopt my own daily habits. My mother can go through one day with a total of 5 showers. And I told her that's wasting water.

But frankly, I cannot stand myself stinking up. More importantly, I cannot help but feel disgusted when people smell bad. We should all take pride in smelling good. And sometimes, a cool shower can be like the best thing to have. Yet, smelling good has it's limits. Sometimes, people pile on the fragances as though they're free.

That's crossing the line. We should smell subtly good, not chokingly good. It's supposed to be a fragrance, not a marinate! I was on campus the other day when this guy came up from behind me. I immediately choked on his generous application of cologne. I turned away to catch some fresh air. When he was 5 metres ahead, his scent still lingered on and like hands, they continued choking me, while trying to shove the fingers up my nostrils. And thank goodness it was an open-air area. I cannot imagine if it had taken place in an air-conditioned room. I could very well have passed out.