My routine in the shower has been the same forever: shampoo the hair, wash the face, wash the body. Pretty simple, right? Why, then, has it recently become so confusing?
It happened again this morning. I turned on the water, counted to 30, and stepped into the shower. I stood under the water and got my hair wet (which, quite honestly, doesn't take that long anymore) and then started to shampoo my hair. The whole hair-washing thing doesn't take too long, perhaps no more than a minute of scrubbing and then another minute of rinsing.
As soon as I finished with the hair, I squeezed a little dollop of face wash into my hand and started washing my face. I scrubbed away for a short while, turned to face the shower head, and rinsed away the suds. Or did I?
That's right. I found myself standing there in the shower, asking myself where I was in the process. I knew I had done my hair but I really couldn't remember if I'd washed my face. I thought I had but I just wasn't sure. "You've got to be kidding," I said to myself. "How can you not remember what you were just doing 30 seconds ago? Were you rinsing your hair or rinsing your face?" I literally had no idea. So, just to be safe, I decided to wash my face.
The really scary thing is that this isn't the first time this has happened. In the past few months, I think it's happened at least 5 times. I find myself standing there in the shower asking myself the same question -- "Where am I in the routine?" It's an incredibly basic routine but, obviously, I need to start focusing on it a bit more.
If this is what I have to look forward to in life, it's going to be a long road.
This is where the magic happens.
