Let's Live

I've been using the same razor, the Gillette Sensor Excel, for maybe thirty years. I realize there are probably better options, but I don't bother thinking about which razor is best until I run out of blades. 

I used my last cartridge of Sensor Excels this week. Dorothy looked for replacements at the grocery store hoping to prevent another episode of hirsute husband as in the photo above, but she couldn't find Sensor Excel. She picked up some disposables instead. I guess I will be adding extra plastic litter to the landfill. Anyway I can still shave, and that saved me a week of research looking for the best alternative. 

Speaking of research, I don't think much about the science behind shaving; but according to Wikipedia that is actually a thing. For example, there is the hysteresis effect discovered by Norman C. Welsh in England in 1964, the year I finished university. All the good discoveries were made before our generation had a chance to investigate, so there's nothing left to know 😅.

There are so many different razors; choosing is such a bother. If I were Gillette, I would make only one model called the Cheap-N-Quick SmOOOOOOthy, for the most comfortable, inexpensive, rapid shave so you can get on with your day free of beard and band-aids. The extra OOOOOOs signify the six nifty blades that together remove everything but skin in one swipe. When the blades get dull, there is a handy sharpener that recharges using changes in barometric pressure. The plastic handle will last until the end of the anthropocene. The SmOOOOOOthy will inspire a catchy jingle in waltz time that the great great grandchildren will still be singing when we're all gone. Warning: keep your SmOOOOOOthy clear of your nose. Six blades will turn you into Voldemort cheap-n-quick.

By now you have realized that this isn't about whiskers. There has to be a point to this story or I wouldn't be bothering to write. Here goes. 

We can let somebody else make our choices: wives (or husbands), ancestors, preachers and prophets, scientists and engineers, corporations and investors, government, the law, whoever is opining on TV news or Meta or Blogspot 😏. We can follow their simple rules and keep our noses safe. But whatever we are up to, when we make a mess, there will be no mercy.

That's life.

It's complicated.
Ask questions.
Try to do the right thing.
Avoid making a mess
or else deal with the mess.
Let's live.

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