The Rise and Fall of Housewives

Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships on Jan 20th, 2014

There was an interview with a Chinese lady a few years ago in one of the leading Slovene newspapers that I cannot get out of my head. She said something most peculiar:

»I don’t know what European women complain about. In China women have jobs too. When we get home we cook and clean and we don’t have all the electric appliances you European women have here. Still we do not complain.«

You will have to excuse me ladies, for I am not painting a too pretty picture of Western culture here. We have machines that do our laundry, subsequently we have more time to watch television and eat. Then we get fat and we have to exercise. One cannot escape problems. There will always be something to complain about.

But what if we decide to stop complaining for a change? What if we think of women in other parts of the world that still do their laundry by hand? And hence we can become grateful that we have machines that do it for us?

I personally thank the universe for all the electric appliances in my home. I also say thanks for the small apartment that gives me freedom from all relatives. And last but not least I say thanks for the wonderful husband who lives there with me.

I have stopped complaining a long time ago. It is a useless waste of time. Change what you can change – the rest you can only accept.

Take care,
Helena Smole, author of Balancing the Beast, a book offering a bright view of schizoaffective disorder ˗ bipolar or manic-depressive type