I’ll be honest. I hate chores. I absolutely hate getting up in the mornings to walk the dog, clean the kitchen after breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I especially hate washing the floors by hand. I’ll be even more honest; at times, I purposefully skirt my responsibilities citing schoolwork, work, or music homework as the reason to not be touched that day, when I’m actually lounging reading a nice book or simply watching YouTube videos. I know it’s bad, but, I guess that’s what being honest means. It means owning up to those bad habits you have and telling them like they are without the forced politeness of trying to make ourselves look better than we actually are. I’m a teenager
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I personally have to somewhat agree with the author. I do feel quite guilty after extended periods of time reading a book when so many other things need to get done. I simply can’t enjoy myself reading a good book until the other more needed things get done. But, when I have time to fully relax, quite rarely, I take much needed pleasure in it. I get to enthusiastically involve myself with my environment that I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise because I’d feel too guilty with not having finished ‘X’,‘Y’, or ‘Z’ first. While the Smiley presents this in such a negative light, I have to disagree. Sure, her husband feels guilty enjoying himself playing golf and skirting responsibilities, but that’s how adults, mature human beings, are supposed to feel (275)! We’re allowed to relax but not when other more important work has to be …show more content…
I’m again going to state I’m a horrible example, but I do have to make this distinction; being a workaholic and not being able to relax are completely different things. I’m a workaholic. Sure I procrastinate, but I also work over twenty hours a week, while plowing through countless responsibilities in church, and still studying in three different educational institutions fulltime. I love work. Chores had a part to do with it. My parents also had their own part, them being workaholics themselves. But, relaxing and loving to work are different things. There is a good Russian saying ‘A vacation isn’t a lack of work, but simply the change into a different form of work’. I find this saying to be quite true. I can relax, and when I need to sleep I sleep, or when I want to watch a movie with friends or family I will readily do so. No amount of work will allow me to neglect my family or close friends. I don’t have an issue with relaxing; in fact I probably even enjoy it even more after I’ve worked my seven-hour shifts and did an enormous amount of schoolwork on top of that during my day. Meanwhile, if I keep spending my days like today, lounging around and not being productive I find myself quite incapable of being entertained by things normally entertaining and to be quite honest I even find myself not
I personally have to somewhat agree with the author. I do feel quite guilty after extended periods of time reading a book when so many other things need to get done. I simply can’t enjoy myself reading a good book until the other more needed things get done. But, when I have time to fully relax, quite rarely, I take much needed pleasure in it. I get to enthusiastically involve myself with my environment that I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise because I’d feel too guilty with not having finished ‘X’,‘Y’, or ‘Z’ first. While the Smiley presents this in such a negative light, I have to disagree. Sure, her husband feels guilty enjoying himself playing golf and skirting responsibilities, but that’s how adults, mature human beings, are supposed to feel (275)! We’re allowed to relax but not when other more important work has to be …show more content…
I’m again going to state I’m a horrible example, but I do have to make this distinction; being a workaholic and not being able to relax are completely different things. I’m a workaholic. Sure I procrastinate, but I also work over twenty hours a week, while plowing through countless responsibilities in church, and still studying in three different educational institutions fulltime. I love work. Chores had a part to do with it. My parents also had their own part, them being workaholics themselves. But, relaxing and loving to work are different things. There is a good Russian saying ‘A vacation isn’t a lack of work, but simply the change into a different form of work’. I find this saying to be quite true. I can relax, and when I need to sleep I sleep, or when I want to watch a movie with friends or family I will readily do so. No amount of work will allow me to neglect my family or close friends. I don’t have an issue with relaxing; in fact I probably even enjoy it even more after I’ve worked my seven-hour shifts and did an enormous amount of schoolwork on top of that during my day. Meanwhile, if I keep spending my days like today, lounging around and not being productive I find myself quite incapable of being entertained by things normally entertaining and to be quite honest I even find myself not