The Unatural Nature of Dusting

I've been dusting.

Every week. The whole house. It's nice. Kind of meditative and contemplative. Plus I love watching the dust rags get progressively blacker... until low and behold it's all used up.

A very distinct feeling of accomplishment.

However, today I was dusting (actually I should still be dusting but I'm now writing about dusting) and I realized something. I realized dusting is unnatural.

You see what is dust? No, I don't mean what it is comprised of... I mean what is it's purpose? Why is it here? On this earth?

I think it's pretty obvious. Dust was created by God/Allah/Siva/The Big Bang/Thomas Edison/George Washington whatever you call it as a clock.

Dust settles on things that you haven't used in a while. It's a constant reminder of the inherently entropic nature of the universe. It shows you, very clearly, what you really don't need. There is dust on the treadmill? Well instead of dusting it maybe you should use it... or sell it. Dust on the bookshelves? Read more, or start fires with them.

See?

So, dusting is pretty unnatural. It's kind of like trying to trick the Universe. It's like saying "Oh hey universe, don't mind me, I'm using this treadmill... every day... no time for dust to settle not a speck." When in reality you are just dusting it every day.

If we were living in alignment with the Universe we wouldn't need to dust. We would only have a few things, and they would never grow dusty because we would be constantly using them. Cave men didn't dust their spears. Farmers don't dust their plows. They just use them.

My proposal is that we should allow things to grow dusty. Then after a few months or years we would realize, "Wow, everything in my house is covered in an inch of dust except the things I absolutely need."

Then we would be living in alignment with the Universe.

For now though, I'm going to dust. I"m going to continue to "fake" the universe out.

"Oh, hey universe! Look at me... I totally use these novelty potato scented, Jesus shaped candles..."