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My whole life has been spent in transition. Middle school prepares you for high school, high school is spent obsessing over college, college is spent resume-building for graduate school or the real world. Everything is done with the idea of getting to the next level. Always pushing forward, always preparing for something else. Like a never-ending video game, except you only get one shot. The funny thing about it, is that when asked, we cite our goal- this time in life where we've got it all set, where we have a family and a career and a 30-year mortgage and there is no more change. But will we ever get there? Will we enjoy it if we do?
I'm moving next week into what will be my 5th apartment in just as many years. I very much hope that this will be my last move for a while. I very much hope that I start developing a social life here. But I don't feel a desire to expedite the process. My mom jokes all the time about having grandbabies and planning my wedding. It'll happen when it happens. I am unconcerned.
This is how my mind works- this introspection was brought on by my search for a shower curtain. Shower curtains are important. They set the decorative tone of your entire bathroom. They are what visitors judge you on when they use the bathroom (at least, I judge people on their shower curtains). They aren't one of those purchases that you make often, even though they are relatively cheap. In fact, I've only purchased one shower curtain since I graduated from high school (I loved that shower curtain too, but it is still in Knoxville). So when I started my search for "the perfect shower curtain," it really drove home the fact that I am now an adult.
So, to honor my new adult-self, I decided at the beginning of the shower-curtain-purchasing-process that I would not buy one of those plastic ones (which is good, because I really liked this one:
Instead, I looked only at fabric ones. The problem I ran into, was that all the fabric ones looked like they belonged in the shower of, well, someone with plastic on the couches, sherry in a wine glass, and Murder She Wrote on the TV. To my dismay, I could not find a single fabric shower curtain that matched my personality. I was about to give up, when I walked past this one.
Bingo.
I'm moving next week into what will be my 5th apartment in just as many years. I very much hope that this will be my last move for a while. I very much hope that I start developing a social life here. But I don't feel a desire to expedite the process. My mom jokes all the time about having grandbabies and planning my wedding. It'll happen when it happens. I am unconcerned.
This is how my mind works- this introspection was brought on by my search for a shower curtain. Shower curtains are important. They set the decorative tone of your entire bathroom. They are what visitors judge you on when they use the bathroom (at least, I judge people on their shower curtains). They aren't one of those purchases that you make often, even though they are relatively cheap. In fact, I've only purchased one shower curtain since I graduated from high school (I loved that shower curtain too, but it is still in Knoxville). So when I started my search for "the perfect shower curtain," it really drove home the fact that I am now an adult.
So, to honor my new adult-self, I decided at the beginning of the shower-curtain-purchasing-process that I would not buy one of those plastic ones (which is good, because I really liked this one:
Instead, I looked only at fabric ones. The problem I ran into, was that all the fabric ones looked like they belonged in the shower of, well, someone with plastic on the couches, sherry in a wine glass, and Murder She Wrote on the TV. To my dismay, I could not find a single fabric shower curtain that matched my personality. I was about to give up, when I walked past this one.
Bingo.
Your first instinct was better.