A little luxury, every day

I am busy.

My day starts at 4.30am. I drag myself off my bed and walk downstairs, zombie-like, to get started on breakfast and lunch. My day ends, if I'm lucky, at around 11.30pm when I'm finally in bed again, with my book and reading-light. More often than not, I fall asleep before I've got through 2 pages.

One reads a great deal about the importance of recharging ones' batteries. Resting. Taking time off each day to meditate, to exercise, to do something that makes you happy. But in reality, who has the time to put such sage advice in to play?

I love listening to music. Music has the power to uplift the spirit, and to change a mood. But music today runs in the background for me; whether I cook, or clean, or drive, or work, or iron, or play with my daughter....the music goes on. But I rarely get to focus on its nuances and accents as I once did.

But there is one luxury that I do indulge in. Every day, and in fact, several times a day too. It's called soap.

Ah the humble cake of soap! With it's roots going back to the Babylonian era in 2800BC, the soaps of today can do more than just clean (and self-clean too!). Soaps come in a myraid of shapes, sizes and colours. And oh the perfumes and the textures! **gushes**
It's aromatherapy, physical therapy and cleanliness therapy all rolled in to one delightful albeit slippery little block that fits right in to your hand.

And this is my daily luxury. My only luxury right now. But boy do I indulge in it!
On a recent trip overseas, I shamelessly busted close to USD 100 on soaps at just one shop that my nose lead me in to. I walked out with a small bag of L'Occitane soaps and a heart bubbling with joyful glee. Before that trip was over though, I had bought poppy seed soaps, edelweiss soaps, rock salt soaps, Hungarian rose soaps, whimsical soaps shaped like sea mammals and smelt of the ocean as well as the run of the mill, mass produced Palmolive soaps.

I'm happy.
I'm tired, but at the end of the day, the bubbles that wash over my skin leave me feeling alive and well again. Thank God for good soaps.

Did you know that soaps are mentioned in popular culture too? Take a looksee ->

This has got to be one of the better feel-good-indulgences out there.