Man invented cart, then invented wheel, then tamed animals to pull carts, then invented engine, then multiplied those engines and machines and flooded our paths with vehicular traffic, one for each, wow!. But what for? Well, well, the original idea was to make ease and gain time, but is the objective achieved or purpose stands defeated?
Where did the domestic pounding mortars, the glory of kitchens go? We have all varieties of juicers and grinders in our kitchens, yet cooking is a more stressful job for my generation than it ever was for our grandmothers and in fact even for their great grandmothers. Why? Of course, we have recipe books, cookery channels flooded with videos at hand, yet our food lacks the taste, health and variety. Why? Because we need to cook within a very short time frame, pack every one’s lunch boxes (six hours before the lunch time), save a minute or two to stuff in what we cooked in the name of breakfast, hit the road, navigate through the traffic congestion, compete with everyone who is competing against time and finally punch in our biometric attendance. Needless to say our lifespan is deduced by multiples of minutes we are late by, thanks to the daily dose of stress hormone. And please mind that we humans are not alone in this haste, our hens must fatten quicker, our crops must grow faster and our cows must milk earlier…
Why can I not see pulleys over bore wells, rather why can I not see wells around? All I see is electrical motors pumping water to overhead tanks, pipe lines and taps and all kinds of fancy sanitary fittings, yet, shower is a ritual, an item in check list rather than a relaxation or rejuvenation. Perhaps we have ceased to acknowledge what our sensory inputs say! I must add at this point, gyms do have lot of lookalikes of pulleys and mortars and all sorts of other heavy weights that we no longer lift for free at our homes.
