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'Indoor Plumbing' - Stanford: What matters to you?


yuanyuan3045 6 / 23  
Jan 1, 2012   #1
As I wiped down the porcelain bowl (a chore I'm sure no other than my mom would delegate), I couldn't help but appreciate the ingenuity of modern indoor plumbing. I'm not trivializing the importance of happiness, time, knowledge, or freedom; those all matter to me. However, as I recall my childhood days, I found myself acknowledging the value of indoor plumbing.

I was born in a small town in China; my parents both worked in Singapore as manual laborers to support our family, so I lived mostly with my grandparents. Before we moved to an apartment equipped with proper piping, our house had no bathroom. The only water source came from a faucet in what would be considered a kitchen. Until I was seven, my family, neighbors, and I all had to use the public restroom across the street (a brick building with holes in the ground) and public bathhouses. Now my childhood neighborhood is replaced with sky scrappers; however, I still cringe at the thought of the stench from the public restroom. Just the summer before last, I went back to China to visit my grandparents. The many bathrooms I encountered all confounded me; water drained straight from the shower-head to the opening on the tiled-floor, but a bath tub or a cubicle didn't exist. Nothing separated the shower from the toilet or the sink, in other words, shower only when necessary. So when I returned to America, I secretly thanked my bathroom facilities. I could no longer fathom nor readjust to life without indoor plumbing. Although I grew accustomed to the convenience of modern day life, I still have quiet moments of gratitude towards the relative comfort of my life now.

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