Soap Philosophy

Originally posted November 8/2007 on "Allison Wonderland"


Is it weird that my soap is giving me advice?

Yeah, we bought some bars of Ivory soap to use on Simon, to see if mild stuff will help with his eczema. They come individually wrapped, as bars of soap tend to do... and I was quite surprised to see on the wrapper this morning that my soap was telling me, "family is nature's way of providing us with friends." I don't disagree; it just struck me as weird that my soap was telling me this.

So, of course, I had to look at the other bars- I'm not one to wait on these things. So today I learned, from my soap:

"The ultimate point of life is joy." Good point.

"There's no place like home." Where have I heard that before?

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." That one was weird, but only because the same sentence had arrived in my e-mail inbox a few days ago as the morning eye-opener. Is someone trying to tell me something? Should I stop to enjoy the fact that Simon just farted at me? Dude... sick!

Maybe it's not so weird that my soap has a philosophy. Jones soda gives me a fortune under the lid whenever I actually spend the money to buy a bottle, and my favourite cleaning products are practically reincarnated flower children. Is this what we've come to, then? We are so lacking in direction and/or inspiration in our lives that material goods and/or consumables have to provide it for us? At least they're trying, God love 'em.