Public bathrooms are fucking amazing

Gabriel Dal Molin
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

People are not there because of some thousand-year-old hierarchy infrastructure optimized through the ages. They’re there because we’re filthy animals that need to produce disgusting substances out of our fragile bodies. We just have to.
It’s sort of a quiet place. All the sounds are made out of necessity, not will. It’s a maintenance room for us less efficient robots. The atmosphere is thick but not heavy. The light is efficient instead of artsy. People don’t wanna be there for long. People are halfway embarrassed by their shit/piss producing body. It’s a transitional place. It’s like a purgatory, I think. Everyone in there is aware that nobody wants to be there more than it’s needed. It’s the most human conversation we can have with unknowns. And it’s wordless.

We are aware of our condition, nothing we came up with is gonna change this. Everything we achieved and created can’t deny this physical, raw experience. We are unarmed, brainless, stripped of our grand schemes. We are, in that moment, just functioning. Despite the dissonance of violent shit happening, rapes, fights. Despite the frantic fucking that is bound to happen. The dominant mood and purpose is just one: function.
It’s not like this is a denial of any religious concept, or a nihilistic anthem or some shit. It’s just a raw, sensory overloading experience.
And on the rare occasion that you find yourself alone in a public bathroom, this thick collective unconscious crashes down on you, whether you like it or not.
Personally, it feels amazing. I just wish it lasted longer.
It’s like some sort of loophole. If I stay there intentionally, it feels like defeating the purpose and fulfilling it thoroughly at the same time. It makes total sense, and none.

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