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I thought this question was similar to those statements made by overly-traditional and backward people who said that people who used machines just as the washing machine as opposed to their hands, gas cookers as opposed to firewood or kerosene stoves, who hired the services of helps to do certain things for them as cooking, cleaning, minding their homes and their kids, were lazy. I've never understood how people glorified suffering so much because that was/is the reality of their parents or is theirs and considered it as a yardstick to measure strength and virtue. It's sickening. Anyone would think that with these innovations that make life easier, people would be happy, embrace it, and strive that it becomes the norm but no. I don't blame them. It's the society we are in and what she teaches. My friends would say it's the poverty mindset, and I do believe so.
Back to the question. My above response, I am sure, at this point, should alraexu have given up what my answer is. The society that I find myself is expects little to nothing of me in the mentioned areas of cleaning, cooking, and taking care of kids by virtue of being male. However, I understand that those are important life skills everyone should master and I have.
Earlier today, I was having serious back ache from heavy weight lifting at the gym and had asked my sister to help me massage. I had asked her to help me crank my toes, but she said she couldn't. Then jokingly, u told her that when picking a partner, one of my criteria would be that the person would know how well to crack toes. She laughed and asked if I could cook and clean very well. And then I told her that I had money. That the reason I'm working this hard is so I don't have to stress, neither would my partner. You see, that's me for you. I like the soft life. I'd take any chance I get to ensure that I enjoy convenience.
I work hard so that every gadget, every tool, every machinery, anything at all that ensures I have more time to myself to relax, do things that I enjoy and which matter to me, that I can afford to get it. A friend of mine and I were talking sometime back, and we were saying how ever since we attained adulthood, it just feels like the time is running so fast. It's like the 24 hours that we have is pseudo. It feels 12 hours. Sometimes, I wished we had more than that. Washing, cooking, and cleaning takes me time to run through, so anything that takes it off me gives me some extra time to focus on other important things. Machineries and robots have been proven to be efficient, so it's a yes on this end. I would think twice about leaving my kids to robots, though. In that place, I'd rather commit the time that I'd have used for cleaning and cooking to sorting my kids out and spending more time with them. Building a family tour and through is very important to me. And that particular job needs me in person, not a robot.
I hope that this was interesting to read.
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