Yesterday, it was around 7.00 pm when I walked home, tired, depressed, and frustrated. Got freshen up and sat for some chit-chats with a cup of tea. I think these are the part of the day when we both come closer to share our day, our smiles, our problems, tensions, and all. We talk for hours, share what happened throughout the whole day, from both days, laugh on them, troubleshoot problems, make plans for the next and so on.
A few days back, I guess I wrote about how work-life balance is kind of an illusion that is never done properly, rather we just keep talking about that and so on. But yet, we all the guys who are doing a job, at the end of the day, try our best to have a balance. Sometimes, we come closer and sometimes end up messing up badly. Previously we talked from the negative perspective how things are falling so today gonna work on the positive side.
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It was day for us to cook, no food ready to be eaten yesterday, we are done with the ones cooked previously. During the night, when I went to the market, she fell sick. Coming home, discovered she was ill pretty badly, did some basic medication and told her to rest. Then what? So much brought from the market, needs to be taken care of. No issue, I stood in the kitchen and started to work with these, like to clean, chop, prepare a quick meal.
Why me? Hehe, you may ask, what on earth made me cook and do these chores. Well, these are necessary. In most of the cases, I'm in the kitchen with her, sitting and having chitchats, help if i can. Actually, men helping his women with the household chores is no shame, I feel these strengthens the bond. Realizing how tiresome their tasks are, standing in the kitchen and cooking amidst the hot environment for hours are no joke. So if helping a little bit makes the task faster and less tough for her, then why not?
She too helps me, when I get sick, I see her going beyond the miles taking care of me, doing the stuff, extra care, this and that, everything all alone by herself maintaining her studies. So these are the cases that we need to remember and realize, its never one person only or never 50-50 in all cases. As I always say, we are never equal with responsibilities, nor can we always be 50-50 or static to a certain point. It has ups and downs, always moving this way or the other, never exactly 50-50, sometimes I am going 80 and sometimes she, we just make sure when one is down the other can back up properly. That's how life has been going on.
Life has changed drastically, the way of living, thinking, and what not. The journey is full of ups and downs, and we gotta stay strong to overcome the hardships with determination and keep going.