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Just a housewife? Homemakers are essential for us to have a life!

‘I am just a housewife.’ We have surely heard that from every lady who is truly a home-maker, but underestimates her job. Being able to take care of every little task in the house is not an easy job. It does not pay in materialistic gains especially not money. I guess that’s probably because we can never quantify it. Some tasks are just precious and priceless.
There are some specific issues about homemakers that I want to address in this post. These are just my observations, not necessarily blaming or claiming a scenario.

Just a Housewife
The primary issue that has bothered me and probably every woman is that taking care of the house and meeting a zillion needs of family members is seen as ‘just’ a job. Start with an instance, anyone who has grown up with the mother or father (rare in India) as a stay-at-home parent, knows the value of coming home.
A home is never a home without loving people waiting for us. From little tasks like providing us our clothes for the day to preparing our favourite meals, there are countless tasks that a person does when they become stay-at-home parent or homemakers. However, it is not uncommon to see that the person (generally men) earning the bread taunts “What do you do all day?” or “What’s the big deal, you don’t know how difficult it is to work on deadlines and under a mean boss?”
The truth is the person staying at home knows deadlines much better than people just earning a living. I can say confidently, because the moment they are away from their job, they can forget it and live.
Anyways, the point is here is lack of recognition for the tasks. Lack of respect that will definitely erode the concept of home from our lives and just leave cemented houses that await us with their endless void of depression.
The reason we still have sane people in the country is probably because we have an all-time healer, lover, unconditionally loving person giving us a home.

Evolving trend
Following the lack of recognition and understanding, one can notice a trend coming up, where most homes are becoming houses. Help is called for household chores. Nannies for kids. And just about on-the-call food service and other tasks. So, we have outsourced almost everything turning homes into hotels and then just spaces of depressive void.
We cannot blame anyone, because managing a home is just a task right… We don’t understand that it means harnessing and building a life.
Possible life
Most likely, the busy race of urbanised people will continue running in the rat race leaving behind contentment, satisfaction, love and definitely homes. This means, we might end up having everything, being practical and logical… just not loved, content or ever understanding concepts like unconditional love and family. We will live long, just forget living.
I pray we understand and revive our loving homes, respecting the homemakers and bringing back life to our time. This would require both the homemakers to recognise the importance of tasks that are often considered menial and for everyone else, to respect, recognise, love and cherish ‘HOMEMAKERS’.

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