Hopeless Me

My lunch for today is grilled Boca burger sandwich, with avocados, tomatoes, and lettuce. I’m really hungry, and can’t wait to eat it. But it’s only 11:06 am and I usually don’t get hungry till 12:30. My mom makes the best lunch; she packs it for me everyday along with a mountain load of snacks. To my friends, I am known to be the one who always has food. I know I am spoiled like that, and I love it. My mom has a hectic job, but she always manages to make such delicious lunches. I just briefly checked my front pocket of my backpack, and it is stuffed with food, filled with curly Cheetos, organic raisins, Nutter Butter, and that’s only what I can see without digging in. Both my mom and grandma are such good cooks. It seems as though everyone’s moms and grandmas are. It’s kind of sad though, because most my generation of girls can’t cook. I happen to be one of them, sadly enough. I only know how to cook with a recipe in front of me, using measuring cups and measuring spoons, occasionally having to ask my mom what some cooking terms like ‘braise’ mean. I am already a junior heading towards college, and don’t even know how to cook on my own. I keep telling myself I need to learn, but for some reason I always seem to get too lazy. I give credit to those stay at home moms out there.
Sadly to say, I can’t sew either. I sewed hems and buttons once or twice, but I never made anything real useful. My mom used to make me dresses to wear to preschool, and I don’t know how she did it. Even when I sew a hem with a sewing machine, the stitch comes so crocked. But I guess the skill of sewing isn't that important because most people buy their clothes already made anyway. I'll just pray to God that there won't be a huge flood or something that wipes out all the clothing stores. Even though I can’t cook or sew, I can proudly say that I can wash clothes. I know what detergent goes with which, how to push the right buttons, turn knobs, hang clothes, and fold clothes. It might sound pathetic that I’m bragging about this, but there are some people my age who don’t know how. If I were to say this to someone three generations ago, everyone would think I’m mentally handicapped or something. Maybe it’s true that as years pass, kids are getting more and more lazy due to the increase of technology. Either that, or parents are learning how to spoil their children. Nevertheless, no matter how much I enjoy being spoiled, I think kids should learn about such basic tasks. Pretty soon I, along with so many other people, will be moving on to college, without our parents. After college, we will all have families and then we will have to be the parent. We will have to start being independent and take care of ourselves. I need to stop writing now because my laptop is going to die.