The gratitude of having hot water come out of the tap💦💦

The work on the hot water heater is finished, and the hot water... the hot water... is finally coming out!＼(^_^)／

For over two weeks, I had to live with days where I couldn't use hot water for anything other than filling the bathtub💦💦

Hot water coming out of the tap is something I usually take for granted☆☆
When I was a college student living alone, only cold water came out.

To say even more, when I was little, we used to go to a public bathhouse, and
when we built our first new house when I was in the first grade of elementary school and installed a bath, at first, we had to fill it with water and heat it with oil.
My cousin's family used to heat their bath with firewood.

In the kitchen, there was a water heater next to the tap, and we used to get hot water separately from the cold water tap.

It was when I built my current house before I got married that hot water started coming out of the tap. (About 30 years ago)
At that time, hot water began to come out of the tap, and for the bath, instead of heating it up, hot water started coming out of the tap.

And now, it doesn't come from the tap, but from inside the bathtub? The hot water comes out and fills it up.

Hot water coming out of the tap...
Even just that has such a history, and it's all thanks to the fact that times have gradually changed, yet

I usually completely forget about these changes in the times.

But because the hot water stopped coming out of the tap, a feeling of gratitude for what I usually take for granted welled up, and I was able to look back on the past.

This isn't just a story about hot water from the tap.

◎When we first got a telephone in our home
◎When we first got a color TV and air conditioning in our home
◎When we first got a microwave and a refrigerator with a freezer in our home

I grew up as a child amidst those changes in the times.

I still remember it even now.

When we first got a "color TV" in our home,
the show I happened to be watching was "Little House on the Prairie."

The scene where Laura and the others are going down a grassy slope

When we switched to the new TV, the grass was lush and green, and I was so moved...

When we got a microwave in our home,
I was so moved when the cold rice became warm with a real "ding" sound...

And then,when my father got his driver's license and we got a "car" (a Nissan Cherry) in our home, and we went out as a family...
(Until then, our outings were by train and bus...)

I realized that the life we take for granted now is surely a "gift" given to us by many researchers and the people who have done the development.

I am writing down exactly what I felt today.
I couldn't fit it all into a 140-character tweet, so I made it a text article☆☆
The content is just a "tweet"~🌸🌸🌸

I think an essay like this is nice sometimes(*^-^*)

Thank you for reading again<m(__)m>

【書いた人】
江村恵子＠終活ワーカー／ゆるふわおしゃべり相談所
「恵子」さん、または「ゆるふわ」さん　
と呼んでください(*^-^*) 

保育業界を退職して、
縁あって 
『終活』に関する学びと 
広める活動をしています。

今は、群馬県の 
『終活アドバイザーサークルの代表』を
担っています。
 
Noteでは、 
『喜んで豊かに生きる素敵な人生』 
について、 
『終活』（人生の終わりのための準備） 
について、 
また趣味である畑仕事や旅行、
家族のこと・エッセイ 
などを書いています。

今後は、 
終活ワーカー（終活のお手伝いをする人）として、 
「素敵に生きる人生について」
オンライン、オフラインで
「ゆるふわに」お話し会や 座談会、雑談会
相談会などを開催予定です。

Twitterもしています。 
Twitterでは、
特に自分で撮った花や自然について 投稿したり、 
同様の投稿をしている人をフォローしたり 
RTしたりしています。 

Noteとも共有で投稿することも多いです 

https://twitter.com/mix8853

よろしくお願いいたします<m(__)m>

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