On Physical Labor

On Physical Labor
Have you ever thought about your own feelings when a sanitation worker approaches and picks up the bottle that you just threw away? It is a mixture of empathy, embarrassment, and even shame. This sort of feeling is so complex and painful to interpret that we even hesitate to think what lies behind. The gap between physical laborers and us, the so-called” mental workers” may be a problem more difficult to deal with than we could admit. Physical labor, in this complicated situation, may serve as a medium through which we college students may get rid of our sense of superiority and prejudice,if any, against physical workers.
Physical work is not something shameful; on the contrary, it may be the foundation of advanced mental achievement. The steam engine, for instance, is a combination of practical and mental work. Were it not for the long-time physical work experience, the prototype of steam engine would not exist. Were it not for the later brainwork, Watt couldn’t have improved the original model to the next level. Similar situation can be observed when we find that an experienced technician could probably make a better decision intuitively whereas an engineer might not even handle the problem. Through doing physical work, students will find that doing physical work also requires creative and analytical thinking. They
will also discover that the borderline between two kinds of work is not so distinct. Physical work, along with mental work, becomes a rather important component of innovation.
Despite the benefits of doing physical work, a considerable number of college students may be prejudiced against physical workers. Just investigate deeply into the thoughts of people around you. It won’t take you long to realize that we hold prejudice that even ourselves are not aware of: their shabby clothes, their dirty hands, their smelly body...All these irrational feelings and insufficient knowledge of physical workers constitute an inaccurate stereotype of physical workers, which eventually leads to prejudice. This issue can be readily solved if and only if college students devote more to physical work. Only thru physical work can we gain further insight into the lives of physical workers with our own eyes and make our own judgment. If you communicate more with these poor men who depart from their home to come to the metropolis for a living via physical work, you may be able to have a better understanding of them, which helps a lot in the elimination of prejudice.
Having dealt with prejudice, here comes the difficult part—superiority. While prejudice is merely a performed opinion that can be corrected once we learn more about
those workers, superiority is something that sticks with us even if we know where it derives from. We all, more or less, covertly or overtly, display a certain sense of superiority over physical workers. Considering the higher pay, the seemingly more decent way of life and the higher degree of education, this phenomenon is actually quite understandable. If we look inside this issue, we will see that superiority, as its meaning suggests, exists to make us feel better. We may not really think that they are inferior to us, but the fact that we live a better life is so comforting that we may unconsciously obtain a sense of superiority. It is through physical work that we learn to gradually accept the fact that these people haven’t reached our living standard due to the lack of opportunities rather than their intelligence. We may never get rid of this superiority completely, but we can diminish it as much as possible with physical work.
Once you determine to engage yourself in more physical labor, get prepared for its numerous advantages: a healthier body, richer social experience, and most importantly, a different way to view this social class and the whole society apart from prejudice and superiority. Open your arms to embrace your new friends, and prepare yourself for a more harmonious world.
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