my boogers don't stop

My nose just keeps on producing boogers, and not a single day passes away without my digging the nose with or without a tissue to get rid of them. When you have a lot of boogers accumulated in your nostrils, not only shall you look really dumb and gross, but you yourself indeed shall feel dirty and disgusting in the nostrils.

So I sometimes wish my nose would stop producing boogers ever. But wait, things are not that simple. Digging the nose is not just a hygienic, aesthetic practice. It certainly brings out the pleasure of picking off the dirty stuff and seeing your nostrils getting cleaned. In this respect, booger-picking (as well as earwax-picking) somehow appears to be very different from some other similar activities such as shaving and nail-clipping. Essentially, I don't get pleasure in shaving or cutting nails; they just bother me. And interestingly, there is yet another difference between the two groups of activities.

Certainly, you will need to shave and shorten your nails on some regular basis to stay neat. However, you might suddenly feel like growing a beard and even shaping it into a goatee or whatever style you may fancy. Similarly, you might decide to have long, well-shaped nails with some fabulous exquisite nail art on them. It is on such occasions that it becomes vital that these parts of your body be able to keep on growing automatically. Thus, we could make use of this productive property of hairs and nails and neglect their care for a while to achieve such goals.

By contrast, we would normally never like to tolerate accumulation of boogers or earwax. Nobody would do so with a view to looking cool or stylish. In this sense, their productivity is certainly pointless, unlike that of hairs and nails. However, that productivity is also what makes it possible for us to enjoy the bliss of digging our nose and ears.

What, then, are the grounds for this seemingly complementary distribution of usefulness of the productivity and ability to yield simple-minded pleasure? An obvious difference is that while boogers and earwax are (dried) secretions that are separate from the body, and thus considered to be dirt, hairs and nails are normally regarded as parts of the body. Such a distinction is nothing but arbitrary, given that the criterion is only how firmly the disputed object is attached onto the body. However, if we accepted this dichotomy, the expected distribution would follow. Usefulness will not be derived from things that we disown. On the other hand, removal of dirt from the body may simply give rise to an instinctive delight.