As previously mentioned in other posts, I've been doing a little bit of early Spring Cleaning, reorganization so my landlords could come in and do some renovations on the apartment where I have been living for the past greater than a decade.
Well, they did the renovations Monday (and fixed my water heater so now doing dishes is a lot easier). The change in the apartment, of getting it ready so they can do work, has given me a massively different view on life, on how to approach the issue in figuring out "how do you want to live".
Of course, in a way, things haven't changed that much. Things have just been moved out of the way, boxed and put in other rooms, compressed into each other so the way could be opened up. But in those opened up passageways and more importantly, totally cleared off sofa, it is like a great burden on the mental energies, that has been sucking them up, is suddenly gone. I can, as my older brother might say, enjoy the spaces I have to live in.
I am someone to be moved and motivated by the images I see. Hence, this could be me
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Not entirely, my dog has passed on and my cat is older, and more possessive, but still, somewhere along the line, I learned that the sofa, especially a big one, is a necessary piece of furniture, a place to retreat to, to observe a world from.
"But shouldn't you build the house first before focusing on the very small details?". Well, that is perhaps one way to look at it but I rather think that how one wants things should flow outward and build from there. One thing I have noticed in my apartments is that one room, given the angle it has with the afternoon sun, is quite the sun room. There is a noticeable temperature difference from it to just walking into the hall way connecting it. Hence, a trig problem to figure out, something to incorporate if not build around.
So from the sofa, it is to proceed in one direction or another. Which ever way I go, there is something to be accomplished there. I am thinking of heading in the direction of the smaller sofa for at least two reasons. First, curio cabinet #2 (of 3) is that direction. Curio #1 has been the most accessible...and as such, it is the most crowded right now....and one of the boxes on the small sofa has curio items in it. Secondly, for as long as boxes have been sitting on the small sofa, what's in them will probably be easier to make a decision on..............and I believe me, I've been filling the recycling bins a lot.
I don't quite have the answers that I need but it seems a lot clearer now in how to find them.
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