Best Profession Yet!

Written by Zhey Chua |Posted on April 7, 2008 | Comments

I must admit, I am immensely enjoying life as a wife and as a homemaker.

There was a time in my life when I thought I wasn’t cut out for this kind of life, homemaking sounded a little too boring, too insignificant, too unimportant, too small, too ordinary, too outdated… I once felt, and decided that it wasn’t me.

I thought managing a career is a lot more fun, a lot more challenging, a lot more significant and I decided that being a career woman is what today’s empowered woman should be… In power suits, in high heeled patent leather shoes, carrying monogrammed handbags, driving their own expensive car, heading conferences, living fast-paced lives, like a full twenty four hours isn’t enough to get things done…Glamorous! Yeah, the glamour is all too enticing…

Ah, well, perhaps some things are just not made for everybody. I was once a career woman above everything else, I managed my own business and although I never got to wear power suits and high heeled patent leather shoes, it was just as good as that. I headed conferences and made company decisions just the same. Yet, I wasn’t happy.

For months I longed to live a quiet life, I craved to do ordinary things women do like grocery shop, interior decorate, have tea at three in the afternoon while chatting with a good friend (I know, I know this isn’t London, but still…) or just read a good book while my not-so dainty feet are propped up on a stack of pillows.

For two months now, I get to do those things and while most of my friends thought I’d probably get bored and would eventually resent homemaking, here I am having fun and still not running out of things to do. Everyday is like an adventure for me and it fills my heart with gladness when I see my husband’s face beam in delight with each new thing I accomplish as his stay-at-home wife.

Everything I do now is nowhere near glamour nor fab, but the rewards aren’t cheap either. In fact, I can say that the rewards are priceless… The sense of fulfillment is something that puts a smile on my face every night before I sleep and gives me zest each morning… No, let me rephrase that… The sense of fulfillment is something that gives me this feeling of significance, of deep-rooted glamour, of unpretentious fab and of real empowerment.

Well, there was a time when I thought I wasn’t cut out for this kind of life. I once thought how boring and insignificant it must be to be a plain wife and homemaker. I was wrong… It’s the best profession yet there is, next to motherhood, and I love every second of it!