Friday, August 29, 2008

About Ironing

My husband always tells me that he likes to do ironing.
This is a typical statement with German way of thinking; isolating things into individual matters out of context.
Actually, I have to admit that his statement is never wrong, when one has got plenty of time and had no specific plan for how to spend it. Under such circumstance, he normally really enjoyed ironing with his numerous pieces of music with eternal wide range of styles whatever one is able to utter or think of, which played with whatever speakers, to which he has got most incredible tolerance, when the dried clothes have been stored in a box and had the obvious 'going to be ironed' appearance. Yes, this appearance is so firmly iron-printed in his mind already from the habitual housework process of his all-competent mother in the early years of his life, so he once even nearly ironed the clothes I put into a box for preparing to get them washed. So from this nearly happened incidence, you could probably have a glance of what did I say about the German way of restricted range of mental units connection.
To be honest, I got this realization only when I have accidentally touched a string of words which are structured as 'raumen' with various prefixes not long ago. Thanks to that, I am a little bit lightened up when confronting people who have different ways of perceptions and reactions toward the physical material world, from my way.
Related to the process of ironing, I told my husband that an university student who is striving for the best marks should wear T-shirts more often, in stead of shirts, because the T-shirts require less effort when doing ironing, especially when one has to do ironing by oneself. For people who have to work in an office or an institute where do not allow one to dress in an informal way and one has to bear the extremely long working hours, then, one can still escape the intensive ironing work by avoiding clothes which are made of pure silk, linen and cotton etc. when their cutting and finishing are elegant enough. By following these principles, the result is not only time-saving, but also energy-saving for oneself and, for the environment. Seriously, think about it.
Anyway, while considering about energy-saving, I don't know if the others have noticed the flying particles caused by ironing as well. I guess the physic guys will be easy to give consent to me on this point, because the invisible or visible particles have been activated by the hot iron, is one of the many too normal physical phenomena. Therefore, one has to take care of these once freed particles on the surrounding furnitures and floor afterward, if one considers housework is a collective term, in which ironing is included. While the action of ironing is aiming to keep one's outlook tidily presentable or even beautiful to the public in a civilized society, then the tidiness and beauty of one's place is certainly not supposed to be ignored as well following the concept of civilization.
Probably the thought on civilization is a heavy enough topic, when one conquers over one's own laziness and is brave enough peeking in its details. The tangled details are always the source of heaviness. That's what do I understand the Turkish word 'huzun', which Pamuk used the whole chapter to discuss it.

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