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What does it mean?
Putting on clothes feels like a daily burden or disguise rather than a natural state.
In plain terms
Wearing clothes feels like covering up your natural self every single day.
What can you take from it?
Reflect on how social norms feel unnatural to you.

Where it applies

  • feeling out of place
  • critiquing norms
  • personal reflection

Putting it to work

  • question daily routines
  • value natural state
  • simplify life

Questions to consider

  • Do you feel restricted by norms?
  • What feels truly natural?

Another view

Clothing often protects us and is socially necessary.

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