"I haven't bathed for many years, and my skin is covered with dirt. I'm still very thin when I wash my bathing."
Back then, the great poet Bai Juyi mourned his mother. He was in a sad mood and had no intention of living a normal life, so he didn't take a bath for a year. As a result, after taking another shower, I found that I had lost a few pounds.
Amo Haji
Although this is an exaggeration, it expresses the relationship between humans and bathing very vividly: If you don’t take a bath for a while, there will be a lot of dirt on your body.
But for Iran's Amo Haji, this is an act that does not need to be taken seriously at all. bathing is harmful to health. Taking a bath will make him lose his lifelong love, so he insists on not taking a bath for more than 60 years.
In 2013, a documentary called "Amo Haji's Strange Life" was posted online. People immediately learned about such a "tasty" man with a scab on his body and had not taken a bath for more than 60 years.
Not only that, is said to have broken the world Guinness record . There is nothing to doubt about this. After all, in this world, there are too few people who have not taken a bath for so many years.
Before Amo Haji, there was a man named Singh from India. In order to ask for a son, he kept not taking a bath for 36 years. Ironically, Singer still has no son in the end, but he is so dirty that he can be so stinking.
This is an easy thing to understand. In addition to daily sweat stains, stains, and dust, a person's skin can also metabolize, so if he doesn't wash it over the years, the smell will be quite pungent.
Sun King
The most famous sun king in France, Louis XIV, is a person who doesn't like to take a bath. In his life, he takes a bath once every ten years on average. However, his stinking smell is almost a walking garbage pile, which can be smelled ten meters away.
is so imaginable, what would Amo Haji look like if he didn’t take a bath for more than 60 years? That's probably the smell of the garbage pile that was "activated"?
But when it comes to why Amo Haji has not taken a bath for so many years, it seems to make people cry: He actually refused to take a bath because he was afraid of washing away his wife's breath.
Amo Haji was born in which year, the information is not detailed, but by the time he passed away, the information of showed that he was already 94 years old, and his last bath was in 1960.
Before this, Amo Haye was a normal Iranian youth and was very lucky to meet his wife. Maybe the wife is very beautiful, or maybe the two fell in love at first sight. In short, Amo Haji has a deep relationship with his wife.
But there was an unexpected situation in the world. My wife was so ill that she couldn't afford to take care of her at a young age. No matter how Amo Haji prayed, she couldn't save her wife in the end. She watched her die in her arms.
This was a fatal blow to Amo Haji, and for a long time he hid in the room alone and missed his wife deeply. It was also from that time that he refused to take a shower again because he thought that it would flush away the smell of his wife leaving him on him.
At the beginning, no one cared about Amo Haji's behavior. After all, for a heartbroken person, the important thing is not to take a bath but to let him get out of his grief.
But later something went wrong, because Amo Haji became lonely and always stayed alone in a place where no one was. Later, people smelled the odor on him and realized that he hadn't taken a shower for too long.
When someone suggested Amo Haji take a shower, he refused very strongly. Later, when a enthusiastic person wanted to force him to take him to a bath, he actually chose to "fight with death."
In this case, Amo Haji began to hide from the villagers and like to stay in the suburbs. After more than , he has become a homeless man who is not recognized by people, with a ragged dress and a scent.
is not just not taking a bath, because of years of solitude, Amo Haji's entire living conditions have been changed. He thought taking a bath would make him sick, and he always drank clean tap water, but drank sewage from the river.
Because a person lives in the suburbs, what he eats is not fresh. Occasionally, villagers would give him some food, but when there was nothing to eat, he would go to the garbage heap to search for something that could be eaten.
This means that the food consumed by Amo Haji is either rotten, expired, or spoiled. But this is also delicious for him.
According to the documentary, the happiest thing for Amo Haji is to pick up a dead animal in the wild, such as porcupine , so that he can have a big meal.
Usually, Amo Haji will simply deal with dead animals, such as roasting them on fire, or throwing them into water and cooking. But sometimes, he will eat rotten meat directly.
Once there was a international rescue organization who tried to ask Amo Haji for help, such as returning to the ranks of normal people, eating clean food, taking a bath, and changing clothes. But they were all rejected by Amo Haji. He refused to accept this kind of help, but instead thought that his current life was very happy.
But it can be seen from the picture that Amo Haji's clothes have become strands, and they are not much different from beggars. And his living conditions are also incomprehensible: is a cinder hut built casually outside the village. This is the kind help given to him by the villagers with the help of him.
Amo Haji's happiest thing every day is to lie on a small earthen kang or sit in the sun to smoke a earthen pipe. Occasionally, an interviewer or a villager would give him a pack of cigarettes, and he would smoke several of them together, which seemed to be very addicted to smoking.
But when there is no cigarette, Amo Haji also has his own way, that is to put the air-dried cow dung into the pipe and smoke it with happiness.
Facing such Amo Haji, isn’t it really that his wife’s smell is left, not to mention the normal life of his own life, is this infatuation or self-exile?
Live like a walking corpse, maybe living relatively relaxed, but where is the quality of life reflected? At least, for normal people, Amo Haji's attitude towards life is incomprehensible.
However, there will be gains when there are losses. Amo Haji may have lost his normal life, but he has always been healthy until he was in his nineties and never got sick.
Eat rotten meat, spoiled food, smoke cow dung, and don’t take a bath. Does this life defeat bacteria or strengthen the body’s immune ability?
Amo Haji suddenly changed his style when he was 94 years old, accepted the advice of the villagers, went to take a good bath, and cleaned his whole body.
unimaginable what it would be like if he had not taken a bath for more than 60 years. But one thing is certain, years of not taking a bath has made Amo Had already used to being with dirty. After taking a shower suddenly, he became ill soon.
This is probably the immune balance between the inside and outside of the body has been broken, right? Anyway, he had been ill for a long time, and eventually he had not resisted the destruction of the disease and died in pain.
There is a word in our lives called "obsession". It looks elegant and almost beautiful. But if you really understand it in depth, it will become a paranoid, serious, and despicable statement.
People regard a person who believes in the truth as being stubborn, while in medicine it is called obsessive-compulsive disorder . This means that if a thing cannot be targeted after it reaches the extreme, it will be excessive.
Amo Haji's life seems to illustrate this problem. It is obviously impossible for him to retain his wife's breath without taking a bath. It is not only because the smell cannot be retained, but also because the odor on his body has actually replaced his wife's body odor.
Just imagine, how can Amo Haji live with his wife's old taste? Perhaps, he has not taken a bath for more than 60 years, not because he wants to keep his wife's breath, but because he is irreconcilable in his heart.. Such obsession makes others live without others and without ghosts for more than 60 years. It is really pitiful and terrible.