Dear Cool Shower on a Hot Day

Dear Cool Shower on a Hot Day,

I don't like to bathe when it's cold. Not at all. I don't like doing the "ooh-aahh" dance as I try to quickly soap up in the cold, so I can get back into the warm water. I don't like having to turn up the thermostat and close the bathroom door, so that the bathroom fills up with artificial heat, so that I can mostly avoid the "ooh-aahh" dance. It makes me shower less often than, perhaps, I should.

But you know what I DO like? Taking a you, Cool Shower on a Hot Day.

You are really such a wonderfully refreshing respite from the tiring heat. When I'm a bit sticky, and overly-warm, I like to start thinking about when I get to take a you. Thinking about how very hot I am at the moment, but how very refreshed I'm going to be after a you has been had . . . I'm feeling extra-refreshed by the thought now. Because I just took a you, and it was so very wonderful. Probably the first you of the season, when I think about it. Sure, I took a couple yous when I was in Hawaii for that wedding in January, but that doesn't quite count.

No. THIS one counted, though. There's just something about that inaugural you of the season (after a dreadful, long winter) that gives a man hope. It's like I got in there and not only took care of my stickiness, and heat, and gross oily feeling on my face; but also the film of winter no-light doldrums. It's been so long since I welcomed a stream of water on my skin. So long since I showered out of a desire to simply shower as opposed to the knowledge that I NEED one. Or SHOULD take one.

In the winter, showers are like brushing my teeth. My teeth are so damn perfect and my breath never stinks - so why BRUSH multiple times a day? I use toothpicks all the time, so I don't even need to get crap out of my teeth. Instead, I just brush because I know that I'm SUPPOSED to do so. Hell - I even went a full month of my childhood without brushing a single time, and I STILL have never had a cavity.

And that's how I feel about showers in the wintertime. Perhaps not SO heavily - because I definitely get dirty and grimy sometimes - but I often feel that the showers I take are things I SHOULD do, as opposed to something I NEED to do.

However, today - today I NEEDED you. I WANTED a you. I actually EAGERLY ANTICIPATED my you. And once I finally made it happen, it was everything I had hoped and dreamed. An awakening. Refreshment. There was NO "ooh-aahh" dance. There was only "aaaaahhhhhh." Actually, in many ways, it was similar to the experience of drinking . . .

PEPSI IN A GLASS BOTTLE!!!!!

Wow. And now the gears are turning. What if I was to take a you WHILE DRINKING

PEPSI IN A GLASS BOTTLE!!!???

That would probably be just too much. I might achieve Nirvana at that exact moment and cease to live on this plane. Nobody (no EARTHLY somebody, at least) would ever see me again. And wouldn't that just be a shame? I doubt I could access and post to the internet from another plane.

Anyway. Point being, YOU, Cool Shower on a Hot Day, are refreshment personified. You're the dawning of a new day. You're a sign of hope. A symbol of rejuvenation and a happy period to come. You helped me purify my body in preparation for a more joyful period of life. Winter is passing, and the sun is still up at 8:15pm. Things are most certainly looking up.

And what was a very meaningful indicator of that fact? Yup. You. Cool Shower on a Hot Day. Thank you. Thank you so very much.

A New Dawn,
CVT