About seven miles east from my beauty salon in Woking lies a village called Ockham. William of Ockham (or Occam) was born here.
He was an English Franciscan friar who lived from 1285 to 1347. He is known for
‘Occam’s Razor’, a principle which can be paraphrased as ‘the simplest solution
is most likely the right one’.
This may not be entirely unrelated to having a waxing, although a razor is not used. But a waxing can raze away unwanted or unsightly
hair from various parts of the body, giving a pleasant aesthetic appearance.
We may not know what waxing, or similar methods, were
around in William’s time of the 14th Century. If they were somewhat
hair-raising, in the sense of the medieval health treatments operating then, with
standards of hygiene and sanitation being questionable, we can be assured that
this is not the case today. You can find
it as a hair-depleting experience, in the literal sense, if you should you
choose to have a waxing.
Yet – no pain, no gain? The desire for waxing or other
beauty treatments for whatever reason, may need to over-ride the law of
parsimony. This again brings William in, as it is the name given to the Occam’s
Razor principle. It means extreme unwillingness to spend money or use
resources.
Paying out, within one’s means, can give satisfaction, pleasure,
and contentment, with having experienced a beauty treatment from a fine massage therapist.
There’s this one here in the 21st Century, seven and a half
miles west of where William was born. Pop down the road from Ockham, or from
further afield sometime soon, where a warm welcome awaits.
