Thursday 10 March 2016

Bringing about a change



A normal day goes like this in the life of my dear sister, when I stayed with her .She wakes up early in the morning around 5 am. She then prepares the breakfast, makes two or three variations of dishes according to the liking of the family. She packs 3 lunch boxes one for herself, her husband and for a three year old son. All this while her son and husband are still in bed and catching up with their sleep. Then she wakes up her son and help him  to get ready for the school. She is constantly on the run, making frequent rounds to the kitchen, taking milk from the milkman, setting the table, bathing
her little one, ironing the clothes, setting his school bag, providing her husband clothes, tie,handkerchief etc and then setting the breakfast table for them. While feeding her son she keeps answering the phones, briefing her juniors about the work and coordinating with her colleagues for the day ahead in the office. She drops her son to the school then rushes to reach her office in between munching her breakfast as she didn’t get the time to have her breakfast. After reaching her office she arranges things for the day ahead, prepare projects, drafts for the meetings. In the lunch break again her full attention is at home. While eating her lunch she talks to her son who is now back from school. She enquires about his activities at school, about his home work etc and in this her 1/2 hr lunch gets finished. She again gets back to work. In the evening she reaches home tired
and exhausted but as soon as she steps into her home she is a housewife and a mother. Her son demands her attention as well her husband demands a particular dish for the dinner. She immediately enters into the kitchen and starts preparing the dinner. Then she feeds her kid and while her husband is enjoying a movie on TV or playing a game on Xbox she is doing the laundry and preparing for the next day. She cleans that special
white dress for his son and the special lucky shirt for her husband as it’s his important meeting the next day. She manages all this with a smile. It’s the same for her from Monday to Sunday, no incentive or bonus for this job. I recently saw this advertisement of Ariel and I shared this with my jiju, my sister and her kid. It’s an eye opener. Since then my jiju helps my sister with the laundry. And they are managing it well. My sister has now some time for herself and a good bonding with her husband. I hope this brings a positive change in the lives of others too.
 “I am joining the Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next generation.

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