Importance of being a housewife

I wonder this all the time. We all have seen women who work outside as well as home and those who work at home. Those who work outside of course derive happiness from work. But the women working in big cities are handling too much, no one can disagree to that. But what happens when they are home, when they choose to be at home, when they are forced to be home, or when they retire. This applies to men as well. All this while they were running having such busy lives. They were driving to work, or traveling, working hard in the office in the rat race everyone is running and then coming home to regular tasks and then again planning for the next day. There is no time to relax or to spend time with oneself. Whatever time we get we plan to do more things to keep ourselves busy. Again my point is what happens when we're supposed to stay at home for sometime. We feel lost and think about the objective of life. We are so used to this running around that when the pace of life reduces we don't understand what to do. 

When I see these housewives I see the simplicity of life. Of course they have dedicated their lives to their family. To their working husbands, their growing children and they too feel lost when children leave houses or other things change. But do you notice the difference in pace? Housewives are better managers, in the things they do all day when they have work and things they can do when they don't have work. The way they can plan a day and have peace with their lives. I am sure if we see the statistics of stress level amongst working and non working women the results will be pretty skewed. I am not saying that to have a better, easy and stress-less life women should not work but I feel it is important for everyone to try from time to time to be with themselves, to know how to spend time when you have nothing to do. That doesn't mean we go for a vacation and feel that if we can spend time alone on a vacation we have done it but to understand ourselves in our daily lives, in the same set up. When you can do that you're free from your own bonds. I feel that there's lot to learn from a housewife; to know we don't need running around artificial things to see our value in the world and value of life.