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Now a year later things have changed somewhat. While I still room with my mother, we now have a larger house on a section that also boasts a large garage with an attached apartment. The bulk of the ‘apartment’ is one large room with great natural lighting and tons of space. Mum and I share it for our two home run businesses and I have a new, much larger and permanent work station in the back of the room. I now have three tables (two of which are square), some shelving and a few upturned boxes beneath the tables to serve as extra mini tables. Looking back I don’t see how I ever survived in my limited space a year ago. But you know what? It’s still not enough! My tables and boxes and shelves are an overflowing mess of beads and chain and wire and buttons. My work area is daily expanding to consume more o the room and I’m still constantly frustrated. Which brings me to my point (sorry that it took so long).
Perhaps the better achievement of happiness truly does come when instead of constantly wanting and asking for more, we stop and take note of how much we have – health, freedom, safety, roves over our heads, food in our stomachs, education etc. I know it’s cheesy. I know it’s something our parents were always nagging us about when we were/are growing up. And most of all I know it’s difficult but I’m going to try it and I hope you do too. After all, my three tables, one shelf and two upturned boxes are pretty damn awesome after all! They’re in a warm, cheerful room with great light, where I can play music loudly and sing along or even dance if I so desire. I can bring my cat out with me and hang out with her as I work. My beads are fun, I enjoy what I do and a few overflowing tables really isn’t that big of a deal. The real problem is I’ve been blessed with some great bargain beads and my cup runneth over with so many good things I don’t have room for them, so to speak. And really and over abundance of good a thing isn’t really a bad thing at all, is it? Nope, come to think of it my three tables, boxes and shelf are pretty darn awesome after all ‘Yay me’, as London Tipton would say.
After reading this have you thought of something in your life that, though you might complain about it at times is actually not so bad in the scheme of things – or maybe even a blessing? Share it with us! Submit your story using the form at the bottom of the page! “I have a really small bedroom but unlike my friend John, I don’t have to share it with my brother. It’s small but it’ s warm and it looks out onto the street which is cool. It’s small but not bad considering.” – Lucy
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