A Housewife

A housewife.

She can’t be thanked enough.

She endures so much in her life. Yet she performs so well. She manages so well. Expectations of the whole family. Doing numerous thankless household chores.

A perfect manager, without an MBA, of home.

In the daily operations at home, her ‘kaizens’ are  beautiful. (The stacking of stuff in kitchen to optimise the time of cooking. Everything is placed at an arms distance.)

Her ‘sales skills’ are good. (Mouth watering ‘cuisine’ that she prepares make the world’s best food preparations pseudo-gourmet.)

She manages the ‘finances’ well! (Over time she will get those kitchen spices that are the best and the cheapest. She’ll take an extra load of work to save few bucks on outsourcing.)

She is perfect in ‘people management’. (She daily makes a beautiful song with the ‘notes’ of husband, kids, parents, friends, neighbours.)

She is a ‘visionary’. (Among all the household busyness, she’ll take out time to ensure her kids study serenely and well.)

But this beautiful component of the machinery if the society is an ‘unlucky customer’ who doesn’t get what she wants. She is seldom told ‘thanks’ for what she does. She is often taken for-granted.

Her endeavours should be appreciated.

She should be thanked.

Disclaimer: This literary piece is not an equivalent of ‘Diamonds and jewellery’ that man has forever appeased woman with. If you think that, man has, for ages, successfully confined woman inside the boundaries of a home and inadvertently or deliberately subdued her aspirations by blinding her with diamonds and jewellery. If you think, hence man enjoyed a nice time outside the home without any competition from the opposite sex at his workplace. Then you think the way I used to do. In my years when my mind thought of ‘rebellion’ against everything, I never realised the importance of a ‘homemaker’ and overvalued working of woman outside home, at offices, universities, and research centres. I still am rebellious about many things, but now I can see a ‘housewife’, a ‘homemaker’ is as respectable a job as that of a rocket scientist.

If man can overcome the inhibitions and enter into the domain of a ‘homemaker’, it would be a social expression respecting this function essential to run the society.

And of course, human aptitude (natural proclivity) helps best manage the aspirations. A human should choose what they like and can be good at. Be it a professor or a marketer or a police officer. A ‘homemaker’ – wonderful!!