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“And what is so 'just' being a housewife? I think it is the most difficult job of all. So much so that people cliche it. Much like a rocket-scientist. Everyone wants to be one but cannot be one and so use it only in idioms :-)”
A copy-paste from a comment left earlier. ^_^
We were talking about having too much time in our hands and I mentioned that I did have a lot of time, since I was just a little housewife. Nice comeback from Srikant!
Yes, being a housewife can be quite challenging especially if there are children involved (and if it is the summer or winter, or any other holiday that lets children out of school for about a week!) But I wouldn’t go as far as saying that it is ‘the most difficult job of all.’ It is tough, since not only does it require some hard labor (try cleaning those floors on your knees and scrubbing those toilets to a shiny, squeaky clean every day), but also requires imagination and good management skills. However, more than being ‘difficult’ the job of being a housewife is boring.
Being a housewife is monotonous
It causes mental weariness
It is Tedious
Lacking
And it can make a person become dissatisfied.
All these can be confused with ‘difficult.’ But it really isn’t difficult at all. It’s all a matter of doing things right the first time and then the rest just lands correctly. If one doesn’t wash clothes in a week, it will pile up. And when it piles up it falls to the floor. If it falls to the floor, then the floors get dirty. If the floors get dirty then the house looks unattended. If the house looks unattended then it becomes shameful to invite anyone in. If no one is invited to the house then one becomes lonely. When one is lonely, then our life becomes utterly ‘bleh’.
And becoming ‘bleh’ is the worst that can happen to a housewife.
A lady of the house must be kept busy all the time... but not by cleaning, but by enhancing our mental abilities (reading, learning a new language, sewing, crafts, or even school). You wouldn’t expect a person in the cleaning business to put in 18-hour shifts a day, would you? Then why would a wife be expected to do this at home?
So it’s not a matter of the job being difficult (you really think we experience a lot of mental stress by washing dishes? Not at all! It’s a no-brainer!) But rather of it being among the most misunderstood jobs around.
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