Festival Season and Skin Cancer
February 1st 2009 05:35
If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, you may have noticed that it's well and truly festival season.
A chance to get hot and sweaty on a dance floor or in a mosh pit, festival season also means sunburn.
We arm ourselves with $10 bottles of water and sometimes don some headwear to keep us hydrated and sun protected and some of us even lather up in sunscreen but that doesn’t stop us from tanning or frying. At the time of course we don't care or even really notice because we're too busy getting squished against fellow patrons and belting out lyrics. When we get home however, it's a different story. We're red, and sore, and in a few days we'll peel. It's not something we enjoy much- well, maybe the peeling- but all in all it won’t stop us form doing it again next time.
Yes, we’ve all heard of skin cancer but we all seem to risk it. C'mon, we only live once and something's gotta kill us- it may as well be a result of something we enjoyed doing.
Cancer prevention campaigners will no doubt be dismayed by my (generation's) attitude to the situation but we're just not too alert about it and certainly not alarmed. We love our live music too much and we hope the little things we do to protect ourselves are enough. We know it’s something that can happen to us and we've decided it's a risk we're willing to take.
Sad perhaps, but it’s true.
A chance to get hot and sweaty on a dance floor or in a mosh pit, festival season also means sunburn.
We arm ourselves with $10 bottles of water and sometimes don some headwear to keep us hydrated and sun protected and some of us even lather up in sunscreen but that doesn’t stop us from tanning or frying. At the time of course we don't care or even really notice because we're too busy getting squished against fellow patrons and belting out lyrics. When we get home however, it's a different story. We're red, and sore, and in a few days we'll peel. It's not something we enjoy much- well, maybe the peeling- but all in all it won’t stop us form doing it again next time.
Yes, we’ve all heard of skin cancer but we all seem to risk it. C'mon, we only live once and something's gotta kill us- it may as well be a result of something we enjoyed doing.
Cancer prevention campaigners will no doubt be dismayed by my (generation's) attitude to the situation but we're just not too alert about it and certainly not alarmed. We love our live music too much and we hope the little things we do to protect ourselves are enough. We know it’s something that can happen to us and we've decided it's a risk we're willing to take.
Sad perhaps, but it’s true.
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