Every once a while, I jump into the shower and remember just how much of a privilege it is to take a warm shower.
Growing up, a common bath mode we were used to was “the bucket bath*.” You had half to three-quarters of a bucket of warm water. Refills weren’t possible either because there was a water shortage or because there wasn’t a geyser. In case of the latter, it would take a lot of time to pre-heat hot water.
And we were lucky to always have access to a bucket bath.
There were so many places where this was a luxury… that continues to be the case today.
The word infra means below or beneath. Infrastructure is a collection of the many systems below the surface that makes our life possible. It is, by nature, transparent. When it works, we just see right through it.
There’s a lot of incredible infrastructure that makes that glorious warm shower at the end of a long day possible.
Infrastructure I take for granted ever so often.
*Comedian Kenny Sebastian has a hilarious segment – it brought back so many memories.
