Creating Space = Creating Self
I’ve been on a journey of self-discovery. For me, working on my home is a way of getting know myself. I’m also creating myself as I go. I see it as a metaphor for all other aspects of my life. I’ve always been interested in space and how space affects us but a huge impetus for this current rendition of how I’m approaching my space was reading Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. The method lives up to the name. I had for so long held on to things and put off projects.
Prior to reading this book, I had always felt guilty or like I was wasting time by overly focusing on my surroundings or by letting go of things that I had or had been given that didn’t bring me joy.
For me the biggest take away of the book was that I didn’t have to live in a space full of other people’s visions and expectations.
I wasn’t helping anyone by holding on to these things and that by letting go of them, I could create room to allow my own visions and expectations in. I believe that it was actually hard to know what my own vision was because it was crowded out with other people’s visions. This all sounds very obscure to I will work to break it down in specific posts where I explain how I approached each area of my space.
This section of my site chronicles that journey.