So today my car battery died, couldn’t even be revived with a jump. I was able to walk to an auto store to get tools and a new battery (damn that mfer was heavier than I expected). I had never had to replace my own car battery before.
I screwed the fastener nuts the wrong way for like 5 minutes, cut my hand, and ultimately accidentally crossed the positive and negative terminals with a wrench that exploded in sparks. I don’t even know what stopped me from being electrocuted but I didn’t feel a thing.
While I’m happy I was able to take care of it myself and will be able to in the future, I also feel like such a dunce for not knowing wtf I was doing and almost shocking myself
We all have our fields of knowledge
Do I know anything about car maintenance? No
Do I know how to cook a variety of delicious and nutritious food? Yes
Yeah I think it’s some “masculinity” brainworms I haven’t rid myself of. I have significant medical knowledge that I use for work, but in day to day life, none of that is remotely useful.
I think there is real value to knowing how to do these things yourself, but feeling shame about not knowing isn’t the right way.
I think it ties into ‘rugged’ individualism, but idk the right way to say it.
I do think there is genuine value in understanding how the things you own function and being able to do some degree of first aide on them but even that can only extend to so many different things. Can’t know everything. You can learn anything though. If you wanna learn car repair, do it, if you don’t. No real need aside from what you’ll need to know just to keep a car (gas goes in gas tank etc)