It’s called “environmental amnesia” and it’s an actual issue environmentalists discuss how to combat. The climate crisis makes it more widespread but it’s been something that’s happening for generations. The story of The Lorax describes it beautifully. The idea that what you remember is what you consider normal, but if the changes happen slowly over generations, you don’t see how large they are because you don’t personally remember them being very different, even if you were told stories about it.
domestic sweetness!!!! getting groceries together, buying home decor together??? making traditions??? cooking dinner while badly singing along to the radio??? making each other breakfast in bed??? leaving notes around the house for each other??? i’m so soft,,,,
everyone has to do housework, and there is something to be said about learning to enjoy it. in the olden times, women would sing and share stories while working. now, we can listen to music, sing, dance, listen to podcasts, call friends to keep us company. it is something that has do be done anyway, and it is worth learning how to take joy in it, find peace and satisfaction in it. it will always be just an annoying, endless chore if we will go into it with that mentality, trying to get it over with as fast as possible, but it doesnt have to be. housework, and especially the preparation of food, is a part of living and ought to be done with some sense of peace and love and patience in the heart, even though it is meticulous.
