HOW TO MANAGE A HOUSEHOLD 101 ft. Paratha
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21/12/2023
As I’m growing up my mother feels this innate need to teach me HOW TO MANAGE A HOUSEHOLD. IKR.
I’m only 23!! Why do I have to deal with this !!! I’m not ready!!! 😭😭
Today’s lesson was on the paratha 🥟🍪
This time I chose not to debate about the modern idea of sharing responsibilities in a house, and put my ego aside to see it as an opportunity to learn. Because I love paratha and we don’t get triangular plain paratha in hotels. So why not learn to make one myself?
However, I’ve noticed there is a significant difference between how my mother teaches me a life skill and how my father teaches the same.
👱♂️ My father’s idea is “learn so you can live better” and
👱♀️ my mother’s is “learn so you make others’ lives better”
🧵A few weeks back, I asked my father to help me sew a hole in my trousers and he calmly said “Learn every life skill so you won’t ever have to depend on anyone” and went on teaching me how to operate a sewing machine.
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The same way he taught me gardening so I could grow my vegetables throughout the year, tying military knots🪢, arranging wood in a fire🔥, climbing a tree🧗♀️, and cultivating the habit of eating simple nutritious food. We always eat together and every time the conversation is the SAME.
We only talk about the food in front of us. How nutritious that vegetable is, whatever we are eating, and how it benefits our body.
I’m now hard-wired to appreciate Karela after every oily snack.
I crave KARELA 🥦😽
On the other hand, my mother always teaches me anything with a preconceived notion that I’ll be married to someone one day 😑 and I should know all the traditional tasks.
This icks my brain so badly 😩but I’ve learned to control my emotional outrage and just follow along and find anything worthy to learn. I do understand what she’s trying to do is simply an act of fulfilling her responsibilities as a mother but not with the right thought.
She maybe right for herself and according to her time. But she’s not right to me and neither to my generation⌛
In moments like these, I try to understand the internet definitely has created a huge gap in perspective 🔎
There is no right and wrong anymore. It’s the drastic shift in perspective🕵️♀️
Parents don’t have bad intentions for their kid, they just grew up in a highly critical, financially insecure society and try to teach their kids what they know 👨👩👧👦🩷
And we should all learn cooking because it’s a basic life skill🍲🥘🍴
This is my first paratha.
Essential skill for sure👍
What do you enjoy best with paratha?
Tell me in the comments!
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P.S.
Be original. Be ridiculous.
Be human. And have fun.
And don’t watch reels. It’s destroying the originality of being a human.
Follow your heart, and listen to the person next to you not the 15-second crap from a complete stranger.
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I’m Siddhi Shrivastava, a Data Scientist and Analyst. Student of IIT Madras.
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