New houses become your home when you put some effort in creating the environment you want to find when you come back from your job. When you choose the room, the bed, or the chairs you like and fill the empty walls with memories from your previous homes.
Weather you enjoy them or not, the choices of colour, space or interior arrangements… are yours. From time to time, you realize you need some changes; then, the most difficult part comes: thinking about what you have, what you need to get, repaint or throw away. Apart from difficult, refurbishing your home might be fun, exciting, motivating, sad or resigning.
So is organizing and reorganizing your future.
There are several times during a year when you need to do it and postponing it until the end of the year makes it even harder, more responsible, or step stone like.
Compared to redecorating a new house, the choices of colour, space or furniture for the future you want to create for yourself become frightening, because you’re a human being. After a few months, you might ask yourself how it would feel like to sleep on some other mattress; but to adapt what one Anonymous said, there are no elevators to easier decisions. You have to take the stairs.
At the end of 2011, my home is a genuine virtual place that I chose to furbish and refurbish for myself a while ago. Now, the challenge is to choose what to throw away and the bigger challenge is to decide what I need in order to make my home nicer, cosier, more accomplishing through its inside arrangements.
For some days, I need to have a mirror with self confidence, a box with new ideas to make my family and friends happier and more optimistic, as well as a new curtain to make me worry less about worthless worries.
For other days, I need a mattress that could teach me how to sleep in order to continuously learn and become the best in what I do for the next year. And…a firmer chair….to keep me straight in being myself.
As simple as it is, at the end of 2011 my home is part of my past and the future I refurbish for the upcoming year. The old and the new small pieces of furniture do make me feel enthusiast about 2012. I’m excited, hopeful and optimistic about the choices I made and I do for my virtual home. And this makes me happy.
Oh your writing is SO absorbing – both Refurbishing the Future and The Stranger Next Seat!
Thank you.