[W Forum] Wireless Vacuum Cleaner

Published 12 Feb.2020 09:44(KST)

A long time ago, I had the opportunity to freely use what was said to be the best fitness center in the country for several months. So, did my body improve after a few months? Unfortunately, or perhaps naturally, no miracle of losing fat or gaining muscle occurred. None of my muscle cells changed, but my eyes experienced a significant transformation. I experienced the mysterious phenomenon of seeing things I normally couldn't see.

At that luxurious and pristine workout facility, if you left a towel carelessly even for a moment after showering, it would quickly disappear. Perhaps due to good management, no matter when or where, employees tidied up so well that when I briefly turned away and looked again, everything was neatly restored and properly arranged.

As I got used to towels disappearing from my hands and disorganized hairdryers and supplies always being neatly arranged back in their places, I began to see what I hadn’t noticed before. After those wonderful months, I returned to a local fitness center, and this time I started noticing towels on the floor. The messy placement of hairdryers began to bother me.

I watched a documentary filmed over 72 hours in a neighborhood in Seoul where many Chinese-Korean residents live, and there was a lot of trash on the streets. Perhaps no one except outsiders considered it dirty. However, when the elderly Chinese-Korean residents who had lived in Korea for a long time started cleaning the streets, the gradual transformation into cleanliness was beautifully captured.

There was something visible to the eyes of the elderly who had lived in Korea for a long time. It is said that our early days when we started immigrating to the United States were similar. The story about Dosan Ahn Changho and cleaning likely happened in a similar environment. He made a living by working as a domestic cleaner in San Francisco, and he worked so diligently that he was told, "Which country are you from? You are not a cleaner, but a gentleman," and was paid more than promised.

Cleaning is the starting point of sacred labor. It is an action that brings happiness immediately rather than regret after doing it. Cleaning is an opportunity to directly experience the application of science in daily life. It solves old grime through chemical reactions and removes dust and hair on the floor using static electricity.

In particular, I have come to enjoy the power of the newly aerodynamically improved cordless vacuum cleaner. As TV shows aired scenes of neat single male celebrities cleaning with cordless vacuum cleaners, many young husbands bought expensive cordless vacuums and more people started participating in cleaning. Because it’s fun.

How about gifting that fun to fathers? The parental generation enriched our present through modernization and industrialization, but many of them regarded housework like cleaning as trivial and kept their distance. When I was in school, I used studying as an excuse, and after entering the workforce, I was busy with work, so cleaning was entirely my mother’s job. I had pride in living diligently, following my father’s example.

However, looking back, I realize I lived focusing only on certain parts out of greed. It is only now that I realize my mother truly lived diligently with love. Especially every time I clean, I feel my mother’s love. But the time mothers spent cleaning with that love must have been a painful time applying only the forces of physics among the sciences.

How about introducing the joy of cleaning with a cordless vacuum cleaner to fathers who are bored after retirement? To show that cleaning is not trivial but sacred and fun. And above all, to let them feel their mother’s love. If you installed a boiler at your father’s house last winter, now let’s give him a cordless vacuum cleaner! Let’s gift the joy of cleaning.