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8. Sitting In Your Towel After The Shower For Too Long
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After leaving the shower, grab your towel and settle on your bed. You are still seated in your towel, somehow one hour passes. You might be simply staring at the ceiling or playing on your phone, and for some reason the time you spend seated in your towel passes faster than regular time. Many of us go through this post-shower limbo, but few talk about. Showering seems to us as a means of entering a timeless realm in which conventional guidelines of time management and productivity have no bearing. This intermediate stage is strangely consoling: not quite clean and ready for the day, but no longer in need of cleaning. This is a stop in our often hurried life, a little break before we have to return to the world. Maybe it's the warmth of the towel, the residual relaxation from the hot water, or just the mental pause that results after finishing a chore that drifts us into this state of lethargy. Whatever the motivation, this behavior points to our desire for times of mindlessness in a society that continuously calls for our attention and activity. Therefore, try not to be too critical on yourself the next time you discover you lost in towel time. It could simply be your mind's means of building a necessary buffer between the pressures of the day ahead and the relaxing ritual of bathing.
