Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Washing Dirty Linen In Public
I am watching “Desperate Housewives” in a stretch on DVD. I never watch interesting TV-series on TV because I hate the waiting period in between episodes.I am particularly intrigued by an episode ("Guilty") related to stress of taking care children. Sexy mums aside, one of the housewife is living with four kids, also with a husband who is always working overseas. She has to take care of everyone and everything at home.
Due to the stress of taking care those four monkeys, she got hooked on some medication that was meant for hyperactive kids. She found out that those pills gave her more energy and strength to keep herself going. There was even a scene where she was handed a revolver by one of her friend (who shot herself earlier) in her daydream.
After the dream, she freaked out and ran off to a nearby field to calm herself. When her friends (other housewives) came to talk to her about how great a mother she was, she was in denial because she felt that all the other mothers did better and not complained at all.
That was when both her friends told her, one of them say she was out of her mind everyday when her (one) daughter was small, the other told her that she spend her children’s bedtime crying by herself.
Three of them finally came to a BIG resolution, which is to share their common hardships instead of pretending that everything is hunky dory.
“Washing dirty linen in public” is never condoned in our culture. We seldom share our problems with friends, neighbours, not even within the family. Everyone just want to appear trouble-free and non-chalant in front of one another, probably to induce jealousy of others.
Look at westerners, they have all kinds of social groups to discuss and discuss, be it alcohol problem, drug abuse, pregnancy, housewives, poker night etc. This is the kind of practice that we should cultivate. People share a lot of stuff in common than we think. There is no harm done in sharing and discussing something we call “life”.
It is because people who don’t share and discuss that we are having all kinds of conflicts in the world.
Blogging open a whole new world for people to share their experiences. Through blogging, I have learned so much thing J and I have in common with other families living in town. We have also learned many things from other people including child birth, demise of spouse, losing a child, ways to tackle girls, how to get free branded t-shirts, good recipe, good vacation spots, great food spots.. and the list goes on.
The world is not just about me, myself, we, us and ourselves!
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