Where can you find mental intimacy in todays world ? When I was younger people were more social. Now they have settled down and are in relationships. There are no more late night confessions after christian youth meetings in friends houses, or our kitchen. Talking until 2 in the morning just doesnt happen anymore.
As a generation we are less sociable than our parents who had friends around for supper. I remember my mother cooking all day in preparation for visitors. It was an event as a child, all sitting around a big table eating a roast of pork or beef, sometimes even something challenging to make like beef wellington. People made an effort and pushed the boat out to make lovely big chocolate cakes, triffles and the like. There was often a choice of " sweets " too.
When I went to bed I remember my parents friends stopping late and hearing them chatting as I fell to sleep. They talked and talked into the night, and my parents were tired next day, but it was an event and very healthy no doubt. Today a woman would balk at spending all day preparing a meal unless it was Christmas, maybe. Men worked back then and women took care of family and home. It worked well as finances were still sustainable in that life style model, and people werent moving house and job every 5 minutes...lo
That's how I remember my life too. Having grown up in Canada, I guess the culture was similar in some regard. I remember tea times with cakes too.
ReplyDeleteI don't think women should be forced into the same situation, but I agree that it would work out better if women would stay home while the men worked (in a marriage anyway).
It's ridiculous too because women cannot do many of the jobs that men do. At one of my past jobs, the women couldn't do the heavy lifting and so forth -- and ended up asking the guys to help them, so why should they get hired for such jobs?
I think women can do some jobs, like teaching and so forth, but they're not physically capable of doing what men can do.
Lockdown has even eroded our generations socializing. That background feeling of questioning whether to visit someone comes automatically now, even when its perfectly safe. Thats sad. Funny how we are so easily influenced long term. Thats brain washing.
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