We make jokes about processed food and drive-thrus, but that stuff is the reason mothers are able to do literally anything other than chop potatoes and knead dough all day. And you can apply that to everything—it used to take much, much longer to shop, to correspond with friends, to travel, to bathe, to wash your clothes, to buy a book. That’s the first thing you’d notice if you went back—how your spare time would evaporate because every single little task takes longer, if you can do it at all.”
