I didn’t know there was so much judgement in the world. Is it really difficult to think of reasons why people don’t shower once/twice a day every day? I don’t think it is. Nor do I think people who don’t deserve this type of bashing. So many people who can’t possibly fathom why people would put just jump in the shower when it takes five minutes max, right?
Right.
Not everyone has a shower. Not everyone has a clean shower. A safe shower. One that doesn’t take 20 minutes to even run tepid, one that isn’t connected to dubious electricals, one that doesn’t contribute massively to the mould on the walls and your child’s asthma every time you use it. Not everyone has the money to run a shower daily and to heat the water needed, especially when multiplied across a household. Not everyone has multiple bathrooms in a house allowing everyone who lives there to jump in whenever they feel like it, many people wanting to shower will encounter a locked door, a queue, or a rota. Not everyone lives in a safe home where they are able to shower unmolested, in a place where taking off all your clothes and reducing your ability to hear what is going on around you is fine to do. Many people live in clothes and layers as armour - against other people, and against themselves. There are many people who cannot bear to look at themselves without clothes and to whom showering is a ordeal. There are many people who genuinely cannot leave their young children in order to have a shower, I’m not talking about just leaving the baby in the cot for five minutes, I’m talking about having multiple and/or challenging young children in difficult circumstances and how some days there just isn’t a way. Especially when you add in the other factors above. There are many people who are elderly or unable to access the shower even if they have one. Some have to wait for help. Some are afraid of falling.
There are so many reasons. I didn’t live in a house with a shower in it until I was 27. I’m only in my 30s now. I have lived in a sexually abusive house where entering the bathroom was a red rag to a bull. I’ve lived in houses populated by mould and twice I have lived without any hot water in my home at all for periods of several months - once as a teenager and once as a new parent.
Just stop calling people disgusting. Just. Stop. And for all those people who can’t possibly imagine why someone wouldn’t ‘just’ shower, like it is always that simple, just try for one minute to step out of your own personal bubble and realise that not everyone lives like you.