everybody poops

pooping. everyone does it. most people don't like to talk about it. and there seems to be a slight social phobia to do it in front of other people in public bathrooms.

we need to get over this shared social fear and learn that pooping is natural and nothing we should try and hide from others. i think grown adults in a sense need to be potty trained all over again.

we're all dragged away from the comfort of the bathrooms in our homes by work, school, and what have you. fortunately, everywhere we go, public bathrooms have been provided to do our business.

there's no need to hold on to it or try not to go in front of other people. what's the shame about? everyone does it. any person who giggles at the sounds of farting and poop hitting water in a public bathroom poops, farts, and wipes just like the rest of us.

i've been semi guilty of some of this shame. however things changed when my job sent me to our nyc office temporarily for a few months. it was an office crammed with people with only one location to go to the bathroom. and it was always busy in there! it was like the grand central station of bathrooms. at any given time, you had to prepare yourself for people in the stall to the left and the right of you. that's just the way it was.

at first i was like, "FUCK! this sucks! i don't wanna poop in front of all these people!" but eventually i got to realizing that everyone was in there for the same reason. it's all just how nature made us. food goes in, food comes out. we all eat together... might as well poop together.

we start this life with no shame. we poop wherever we want and someone cleans it up for us... sometimes in front of other people. and a lot of people end life in pretty similar fashion. shameless and proud pooping are the bookends of our lives. let's not be such prudes about it during that middle part.