Manual labor

A couple of times lately I have helped my grandparents do some manual labor (pruning their fruit trees and trimming the hedges).

I don't do much manual labor at home myself. I live in a rented apartment, so I don't have much maintenance to speak of, and my day job mainly consists of programming, which can only be thought of as manual labor if you are a pedant and use the original definition of the word.

But in that case, this is manual labor as well.

 However, whenever I get to do some real manual labor, I think I should do more of it. It's both due to the 'getting to work your body' thing and the 'feeling like you actually did stuff' thing. Together, they give a feeling of wholesomeness.

If and when I ever get a family and/or own a house of my own, I suppose there will be more of this. Until then, I'll just have to help out my grandparents as much as I can.