On weekends and restdays!

February 20, 2022

Good day my lovely and wonderful read friends! How are you? How's your weekend going? I hope and trust that you are all doing fine and well today. Given the fact that today is Sunday, most of us have no work to do this day or at least we won't be at the office. We can surely do the things that we have to do like doing the laundry, cleaning the house, going to church or chill and have fun.

On my way home earlier, I saw my collegue before, she is a teacher and a mother of two. She is doing a week's worth of laundry. I can't imagine how it must be tiring on some teacher's part. Some of them still have to do the laundry and take care of the household on top of being a teacher and a mom. Most of us play a lot of different roles altogether and more often we wore ourselves out as we try to portray all of the roles assigned to us.

I remember my aunt who is a teacher. She has four kids and all of them we're at their very young age that time. We stayed in their house for a year, me and my sister as we were studying in a highschool away from home. There was a highschool in our locality but we don't trust the quality as most of the teachers would only come to school to log in. After that, they would come home and never come back. My parents were worried about that situation which is why they decided to send us to a different highschool.

At my aunt's house, we help take care of the kids when we were home and free from doing school works. Somehow, her tasks were lightened when we were there because we can take turns in taking care of my cousins who were toddlers and babies at that time. On saturday, my aunt would do the laundry, though she is not washing the clothes using her bare hands, still it is very tiring and stressful to think that your rest days are spend to do household chores.

In the ideal life, after working straight five days in a week, it would just be justifiable to spend some time to pamper and reward yourself of sleep, a time to develop your hobby and a time to study new skill. Two days would be enough to do a different thing from what you usually do. Something that would make you feel alive. By doing so, your disposition towards work for the new week would be positive. You will be more motivated to work because you got to spend time to relax and do your thing.

However, in other cases, such as for moms, doing tha laundry and cleaning the house even after a work-week sounds fulfilling. As moms, hearts would be in peace and steady if everything at home is in their proper places. This would mean less stress. But eventhough they have this nature, it would still not hurt to give them a break and surprise them for new things. Surely, moms have dreams and hobbies or interests that are left off. They just prioritize being homemakers.

This does not apply only for moms. It is for all of the working force. There are so much to do at work already and yet some of us still have things to do at home. While some of us find houseworks fulfilling, it is but necessary to at least give them a break from thinking of the things they have to do. At work, they have a lot of things bombarded for them to do, so might as well make them relax as much as possible when they come home. Let us be their rest.

Work-life balance is a must to avoid burn-out and depression. When we do what we like to do on our free time, we would be nurturing our passion that makes us feel alive. This will further give us inspiration in life and would surely generate a lot of happy hormones.

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Thank you for reading. Until then!