sunburn

we all got sunburns at the uturn carwash on saturday.
mine is especially bad on the left side of my neck, because i stood with my left to the sun for about an hour holding a sign.
this is mostly bad because it's exactly where my bass strap rubs against my neck, on top of a bug bite in the same spot, so it better heal fast or im gonna be miserable during the launch party.

anyway, yeah. sunburns.
they're always a bummer:
you go out in the sun, overestimate your sunscreen (or your manliness), and you end up burnt.
but wait.
just a liiiiiiiittle less sun and you would have had a nice tan, right?
everyone loves getting tan, except people like stephen hawkings who is like allergic to it or something.
tans: they make you look better, they make you think your skin is healthier, they make you look like you dont
spend all your time indoors, basically, they're good.
but burns are bad.
its interesting how the same thing (the sun) can both tan, and burn. good and bad.

okay, now you're thinking, "he's either retarded, or is trying to go somewhere with this.".
well, yes, and yes.

when you get a really bad sunburn, your skin starts to peel.
especially noses for some reason.
your nose always peels, and every time you brush against it you end up with little pieces of skin all over your hand or something, and you think to yourself, "man, im so ugly."
then the best part: when your skin peels all off, you're left with a nice layer of white, new, fresh skin underneath.
emphasis of new and fresh.

im gonna do a stretch here and try to link the sun with pressure, trials, struggles, adversities, and lame-o team-building activities commonly found at ropes courses.

if you get enough pressure/adversities to get outside your comfort zone [think: going outside], you grow. [you get a tan]
but if you get too much crap piled on top of you, you burn. when that happens, too often we think, "ow", and put on that nasty smelling moisturizing lotion that mom's had in the closet for 15 years. then we go back out into the sun and get more burned.
but i think sometimes, you have to just let it peel.
let the new skin come out, put on more sunscreen, and face your adversities with a new wind/vigor/perspective/outlook/motivational catchphrase.

and i think that's what im gonna try to do.