This morning I found a mysterious hair on my bar of soap. Normally, I wouldn’t find this disturbing, but this morning was different. Basically, the hair wasn’t mine. Not only was it longer than mine, but it was a different color as well.
I just stood there, staring at the hair and thinking to myself that now the soap was completely tainted. Even if I managed to get the hair off, how could I possibly use the soap now, knowing that some strange hair had been on it? Knowing that some strange hair had corrupted the very essence of the soap?!
I had to think quickly before I lost the soap for good. So, I grabbed the shampoo and poured some on the soap. After I got a good lather going, I scrubbed the soap vigorously and then rinsed it off…satisfied that the soap was now clean again. Then I started to think. Could soap really get dirty? I mean it’s soap…couldn’t it just clean itself? Would it really be possible for a single hair, no matter how dirty it is, to corrupt a whole bar of soap? And does cleaning soap with soap really make the soap more soap-like?
These are definitely questions to ponder…
