An 80-year-old Iranian man named?Amoo Hadji has ostensibly broken the world record for most number of years without a bath. According to the?Iranian News Agency (IRNA), the man, who lives in a?village called Dezhgah, has gone a record 60 years without touching soap and water to skin.
To hyper-hygienic Americans, Amoo’s bathing habits are unthinkable. We bathe more often than probably any other culture, even though doing so is completely unnecessary. According to Katherine Ashenburg, author of?The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, no one “need[s] to wash the way we did when we were farmers.” Because we spend most of our days in air-conditioned homes and cars, “we have never needed to wash less, and we have never done it more.”
Be that as it may, going 60 years without a hot shower is pushing it.
Below you can see some arresting photos of Amoo, taken by?Mohammad Babaei of the Islamic Republic News Agency.
Amoo enjoys resting in a hole in the ground that resembles a grave.
But he calls a stone shack home. It was constructed by neighbors.
Hobbling home after a long day.
What more do you need?
To keep warm on cold nights, Amoo allegedly wears a helmet and lights up several cigarettes at once.
His dry, weathered skin betrays the many years he’s spent out in the open.
One of his prized possessions is his pipe, which is three inches in diameter.
He uses it to smoke dried animal dung.
To sustain himself, he cooks dead animals he finds in the surrounding area.
Life must crawl at a snail’s pace for such a humble man.
And must also be a constant struggle.
Who knows what thoughts go through Amoo’s mind upon seeing his reflection?
Every human life, no matter how small, is worth examining, and, in Amoo’s case, celebrating. What do you think of this man’s lifestyle?
Joseph Guyer?resides in the reddest state in the Union, a wondrous place where pick-up trucks proudly display swinging novelty testicles, fried sticks of butter are deemed safe for human consumption, and female escorts can lawfully be shot for refusing to sleep with you. He firmly agrees with Bill Clinton that there is nothing wrong with America that can’t be cured by what is right with America. You can read more of his work at?Liberals Unite?and follow him on Twitter?@joerobguy.
