The Dishwashing Duty That Shaped Me

Life

Growing up was not an easy thing. I was convinced by my mother about a secret passage that was against me every evening with that feeling she would always call out, it's your turn to wash the dishes, go inside and get it washed. I would groan, I would be angry, I was thinking she was stressing me, but I have to do it because I will face the punishment afterwards if I do not do it. To my young man, to me it was just a pure torture, why me? Why not my siblings? Why should I be the one to do those things?

I was always thinking, I always thought it was a punishment that had been brought up to me by my parents, that they did not love me, but little did I know that that evening they were teaching me lessons that would stay with me for life.

Back then I didn't see any point, I didn't see any point. We were supposed to have a dishwasher for crying out loud, but mom insisted that using our hands to wash the dishes is better and in B's character. I would try to convince her that it is a lie and hope, thinking that she wanted to make my life miserable.

Then I remember one time I accidentally left a pot half washed, hoping she would give up on me and say that she would not wash again. She made me go back and wash the pot properly, but although I was not happy, I didn't dare to pull that stunt again since it was not bringing any good result.

Now fast forward to my adulthood now, I'm now an adult now and now I get the lesson. Those, my session of words, I learned. Those, my session of washing the dishes, worrying about those clean plates, they are about the unique responsibility.

My mom, I later found out that my mom was teaching me how to show up no matter what, even when I don't feel like. No matter how the problem is, just like the way the plate keeps piling up and you go and wash the dishes. It's still the way. That is how life is also. You have to go and solve your problem.

And it also taught me to work with deadline and the principle of me washing those plates and me tackling life was almost the same. You have to tackle this task with no excuse. I also learned one of the important things, that is patience. Just like while I was scrubbing those hard pots, it taught me that life is like a machine. It is like solving tougher problems.

And there was something meditative that captured me. The warm water, while I was scrubbing, it became a space to think. I thought about things that happened to me in schools, at home, how I wanted my life So it was a time for me to reflect and think, and even dream.

Now you can see I am washing dishes just on my own at home without anyone forcing me. I'm grateful for the lesson that I've learned so far. I really love my mom, she really is still a lot of this be. I appreciate everything she has done for me even though i thought it was punishment when I was still young.

To anyone out here trying to go out, your eyes or trying to shift yourself from the task I had know that you have to fix it if not your life will not move forward. So get ready to embrace the hard work so that you get wider and sharper and overcome life's challenges so grab that point and who knows you might find a little reason.

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