The manager nobody noticed

I think I'm good at managing multiple things in life. And lucky me, I landed in a management role almost by coincidence. My job is to handle multiple stakeholders and multiple moving parts, and to keep hold of all of them. And I get paid for it.

Then I look at my mom.

She's a housewife. She studied till class 11 and then got married. No one supported her or encouraged her to keep studying, to stand on her own feet. So she got married and gave her life to serving our family.

But man, I never realized how brilliantly she handles everything, every single day, for my father, my brother and me.

Groceries. Cooking. Laundry. Utensils. Functions. Relatives. She knows exactly who needs what, and when. She makes sure we never struggle. She sees what could go wrong before it happens and sets things up so it never reaches us.

I mean, this is exactly what I do at work. Manage things, anticipate what can go wrong, fix it before it happens.

So guess what? I got it from my mother!!!

And then another thought came.

How unfair it was to her. All those managerial skills went into household chores and never got used anywhere else. Her own family never even saw them as skills.

And how grateful I am to my parents for educating me, so I could do whatever I'm doing today.