A few weeks ago, I wrote this in response to someone's status update on facebook:
"If you want to get rid of negative energy, sweat. I mean gross pouring from everywhere down your arms from your pits, making your shirt stick to you, and pouring from your brow til the salt burns your eyes but you get used to it...glistening from your shoulders to your toes. Sweat til it stains your skin white with salt when it dries. Regularly. Quite cleansing. Nothing like it."
And I meant every word.
I don't know how it happened, but our culture seems turned off by sweat. It is a normal, healthy, essential function, but we don't want to see it. Well, not too much. Glistening is nice. But sweat soaked running shorts and droplets trickling down between your legs and making an audible pitter-patter sound when they hit the ground, well, not so much. Dried salt flakes on your face and neck are not exactly what our culture considers to be sexy.
"If you want to get rid of negative energy, sweat. I mean gross pouring from everywhere down your arms from your pits, making your shirt stick to you, and pouring from your brow til the salt burns your eyes but you get used to it...glistening from your shoulders to your toes. Sweat til it stains your skin white with salt when it dries. Regularly. Quite cleansing. Nothing like it."
And I meant every word.
I don't know how it happened, but our culture seems turned off by sweat. It is a normal, healthy, essential function, but we don't want to see it. Well, not too much. Glistening is nice. But sweat soaked running shorts and droplets trickling down between your legs and making an audible pitter-patter sound when they hit the ground, well, not so much. Dried salt flakes on your face and neck are not exactly what our culture considers to be sexy.
