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Gifts and Equilibria
Jun. 18th, 2007 10:32 amYesterday evening I helped ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
figment80 clean her house and her room, as an early birthday gift to her. She has a lot of things and struggles with how to cope with them--many of these things come from her parents, and it sounds like they have much more storage space to keep stuff, but her house doesn't have the same amount of space (and I would argue that life is better and simpler with less stuff anyway).
Anyway, it was neat to be able to give her the gift of time and cleaning energy, and while I was cleaning I was reminded of growing up helpingannikusrex clean her room. I used to enjoy that immensely because I never quite knew what I would discover in the process. AKW's parents similarly have a pretty large supply of stuff (all quite useful, mind you), and devote an appreciable amount of time to managing and organizing it (her dad's wood shop is just incredible). It was always nice, as a kid, to have all sorts of materials readily at hand for creative projects, but they do come at the cost of having to know where they are when one wants to use them, and at the cost of occupying space. My impression is that AKW has gotten much better at managing such stuff (she'll have to confirm/deny this herself), and it's interesting to consider such a shift and how it comes about. Personally, I've gotten more relentless about purging stuff that I don't use regularly, but I know I still have a hard time getting rid of hand-made objects.
In other news, I've been thinking a fair amount about shifting equilibria--balances in the way I spend my life. I don't have coherent commentary on my thoughts yet, except to note that I'm feeling imbalanced at the moment, and to note that making changes is hard.
figment80 clean her house and her room, as an early birthday gift to her. She has a lot of things and struggles with how to cope with them--many of these things come from her parents, and it sounds like they have much more storage space to keep stuff, but her house doesn't have the same amount of space (and I would argue that life is better and simpler with less stuff anyway). Anyway, it was neat to be able to give her the gift of time and cleaning energy, and while I was cleaning I was reminded of growing up helping
annikusrex clean her room. I used to enjoy that immensely because I never quite knew what I would discover in the process. AKW's parents similarly have a pretty large supply of stuff (all quite useful, mind you), and devote an appreciable amount of time to managing and organizing it (her dad's wood shop is just incredible). It was always nice, as a kid, to have all sorts of materials readily at hand for creative projects, but they do come at the cost of having to know where they are when one wants to use them, and at the cost of occupying space. My impression is that AKW has gotten much better at managing such stuff (she'll have to confirm/deny this herself), and it's interesting to consider such a shift and how it comes about. Personally, I've gotten more relentless about purging stuff that I don't use regularly, but I know I still have a hard time getting rid of hand-made objects.In other news, I've been thinking a fair amount about shifting equilibria--balances in the way I spend my life. I don't have coherent commentary on my thoughts yet, except to note that I'm feeling imbalanced at the moment, and to note that making changes is hard.
