“When you are out there
with a gentle breeze on you, every last hair on your body feels it. You feel
completely connected with natural world in way you just can’t in clothes,” the WNGD website reads.
This article of mine is
on paper not with the meaning to uphold the nude event or to pass judgment on
it but to share the happenings which some may not have seen or heard. World
naked day is an annual worldwide nonpolitical event which happens after every
twelve months on the first Saturday of May. It was founded as a project of Body
Freedom Collaborative (BFC) on September, 2005 but later on the event timing
was edited to May as to take temperature into account for the unclothed
gardeners.
The day is in design to
work with, rather than against the nature. More over it supports going nude in
squares for guerrilla gardening but one can as well join the day by gardening
nude in private property if they feel uncomfortable in public soils. One of the
naturists wrote that the day is not about revealing body to others but to
accept one’s body and live with nature on your own. Claire on her 200th
videotaping anniversary which also overlaps with the 10th world naked gardening day says
that she wore nothing than a smile on her face.
The book of Genesis or the
creation myth reads that in the times gone by, a nude couple Adam and Eve lived
in the Garden of Eden. Their desire for the fruit resulted in cursing them to go
back into the dust of their origin, and also opened the eyes to their own
nakedness. They from then were no more the nature’s offspring and began to
cover themselves with leaves and loincloths. So, the founders of the gardening
day may have thought that they or we shall only be linked to nature if not
against what and how god made us; have down pat that no man was born with the garments. But in countries like Bhutan, such program of going naked for gardening shall be tagged as taboo. But if we carefully reflect for a second time, where is the forbidden mores when its comes to our naked festivals (read here) or what about the great Indian Kumbh Mela.
There are critiques
saying that myth of Adam and Eve is a depiction to rise of moral society rather
than of fall from desire and deception. So akin to what critiques say, to
support nude program could also mean that one is going back to ones origin
of ape, and that is how degenerating or the dark age begins. If asked to think
of nature, your third eye will take you into the peaks, see the pouring brooks,
feel the breezing winds, and hear the chirping birds but the entire mental
picture gets ruined when a mother ape is forced by her grownup offspring to do
what we term as nature’s act. So, its not always wise to follow whatever the patterns nature weave.
Nevertheless, no matter
what it may be, best wishes for the upcoming 12th annual world naked
gardening (7th May, 2016) to the entire naturist for their efforts, after all it’s the inner
contentment one seeks at the closing stages of every deeds.
