As we enjoy the limited winter days in the city, the struggle to take a bath is getting real. It is very difficult to take a shower during this chilly weather. While hostel students avoid baths due to lack of warm water others just don’t do it out to laziness.
Now, whatever your reason is, taking a bath is imperative for hygiene reasons. And if you need motivation then watch this adorable video of a group of Capybaras enjoying a hot yuzu bath. After all, who doesn’t want to relax in a hot tub of water in this freezing weather?
Check out the clip shared by Twitter user Johnny Sun:
oh to be a capybara surrounded by other capybaras taking a yuzu hot bath in the winter pic.twitter.com/TaQmuZohhp
— jonny sun (@jonnysun) January 19, 2020
Yuzu bath is a Japanese tradition where a fragrant fruit is put in the water to enhance the bathing experience. In the minute-long video, a bunch of capybaras can be seen standing in an enclosure that is filled with steaming hot water and has yuzus floating in it. According to News18, the capybaras are really enjoying themselves as fresh hot water pours into their Yuzu bath.
Many people were envious of the rodents’ splendid bath arrangements:
this is the peace I needed
— B SWIFFT (@B_SWIFFT) January 19, 2020
oh to be a capybara surrounded by other capybaras taking a yuzu hot bath in the winter
— 𝒎𝒆𝒈𝒉𝒂𝒏 ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ (@meghan_jaya) January 19, 2020
i too would like to soak in a yuzu bath all day
— Christine Wang (@christiiineeee) January 19, 2020
Their life is more peaceful than mine😭
— Amanda (@ametrianaa) January 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/Nobleheart92/status/1218801045918359553?s=20
How does one find this blissful place? Asking for a friend.
— High Park capybara (@HPcapybara) January 19, 2020
Why are they living a better life than I am
— danæble (@DanaEble) January 19, 2020
Many people didn’t know what a Capybara is and took wild guesses about the creatures in the hot bath:
https://twitter.com/birbybirbington/status/1219039364497526785?s=20
At first I didn't see them and thought they were rocks.
— Alicia Gray (@AliGraysAnatomy) January 19, 2020
I thought those were lemons and I was like, you call it a bath but it looks more like marinating 😳😳
— ⛤Watchfire Witch𖤐 (@JessFortunato) January 19, 2020
“What are they, hippos?” – @joekrieger_
— Katie Campbell (@KazzzaCampbell) January 19, 2020
i thought these were eggs
— girls dm me I have a djembe (@itsasymmetric) January 20, 2020
They kinda look like moomins near the end ❤💔 pic.twitter.com/x6CiPtCTsF
— ب (@Khy3sF) January 20, 2020
In case you are wondering, the capybara is a mammal native to South America and is the largest living rodent in the world. Also, yuzu is a citrus fruit which is a hybrid of mandarin orange and the ichang papeda. Are you inspired to take a warm and relaxing bath after watching this video? Let us know in the comments below.