Usually this does not happen in children, but in adults it is more than enough. We gladly impose various obligations on ourselves, then the joy leaves, groans and moans remain, but nothing can be done, you can’t throw the burden away, it’s not so easy. Let's talk about the last noun today.
Origin and Meaning
The word is quirky, and therefore it would be nice to know about its origin and history. We inherited it from the old Slavic, where obuz means bandage. From the same word, bonds and knitting appeared. In other words, a burden is an obligation that binds, burdens.
We listened to the opinion of the etymological dictionary, but what does the explanatory dictionary think about this, does it fully agree with its colleague? Let's open it without delay and read the following:
- Painful duty, care.
- He (something) who (what) aggravates, burdens someone with something.
Yes, the explanatory dictionary and etymological agreed. So, if work does not allow someone to spread their wings and fly to a dream, then it means that for him it has become a burden, thisobviously. But it's sadder when a person becomes a burden for his relatives because he lost his form or cannot earn as much as before.
By the way, do you know that in the West, the loss of a husband's job can be a reason for divorce, because a woman does not want to pull the family. This is how love passes so quickly and easily. But we are not going to idealize our country or demonize Europe or America, it also happens here when marriages are made for materialistic reasons.
Anything can become a burden
For most ordinary people, social work is a burden, because you have to do something, usually for free, and spend time that could be devoted to yourself.
But remember Shurochka from the brilliant film Office Romance (1977). After all, for her, social work is a field for realization. What about accounting? Boredom. Another thing is the life of the team, which boils all the time, especially when the person himself creates this endless seething with his incessant fuss.
I also remember an example from everyday existence. Usually, working for the good of society, even for money, is a burden. Most people groan under the heavy burden of work. And when a person retires, he understands that apart from the “social order”, he has nothing left in his life - his children have grown up, he does not want to do needlework and crafts. Following the realization of this gloomy prospect, a reassessment of values occurs, and a person begins to work with full dedication. Of course, we are talking about working pensioners.
In other words, people don't even know what they want sometimes. But this is not about us, we wanted to consider the meaning of the word "burden" and did it. And once again we were convinced that the world is complex, and man is contradictory.
