system upgrade necessary

Can you rate the following tasks in the order of difficulty and perhaps come up with an emoticon that closely resembles your reaction at the time of reading each of these tasks? 

Draft job description for a manufacturing engineer.

Draft job description for a climate scientist. 

Draft job description for a housewife.

Draft job description for a working wife.

Draft job description for a working mom and wife.

Draft job description for a working dad and husband. 

Draft job description for a househusband.

Now, try to order the above along these metrics: monetary value, credits/rewards (not $), societal status (how others perceive you in your role) , self-worth quotient, emotional and mental exhaustion.

While reading the above, if you wanted to either quit, or didn’t have any difficult emotions, my friend (not literally, no) , congratulations, you’re privileged. 

How others perceive you.. implicitly, but quite significantly, impacts your self-worth. Merely wearing hats or crowns isn’t what we are talking about, but where one wears it rather than how they wear it. Yikes.

It doesn’t require any time for one to judge or make one feel less, which is exactly why it’s a common (but very subtle) phenomenon. It’s an automatic wiring based on a number of things where one instantly connects several keywords and makes a momentary judgment that impacts the emotional health of many many.

In an idealized world, how one gets perceived by others (with or without hats) certainly should make no difference. You decide your feelings, ideally, that is. No surprise here, we all have a lot of work to do. 

Can we start by recognizing that little things cause colossal damages, though slowly? Can we challenge our outdated wiring systems?

In a world that where there is something after the other, be it a virus induced pandemic or wild fires or wars, let’s be mindful so there is self awareness in eradicating (mitigating?) a silent pandemic that is caused by outdated neurons!