Today I took a walk and had quite a few "deep thoughts" about tons of different topics. For some reason, they get less profound between the time I have the thought, write a reminder on my iPhone to think it through more, and when I actually sit down to write.
I'm still going to try to muddle through this half idea here.
My Aunt Anne has been on my mind for a few days because she died recently and I'm going to put her personal history into a book format so members of the family can have their own copy.
Whether it is true or not, my memory tells me that my Aunt Anne had the most beautiful bedroom at my grandparents home. I'm not sure if it started out as her room, but I remembered it being hers when I was a teenager and when we drove out west to visit my grandparents.
Here's my sister RaeAnna in the room.
The bedroom is on the main floor (huge plus compared to the basement) of my grandparents home. It has (or perhaps had) a really nice sky blue carpet, light blue walls, and lots of beautiful dolls strategically placed around the room. It also had a large mirror on the wall nestled between two large closets. I have memories of getting my hair brushed and curled in front of that mirror.
My grandparents had a beautiful light green bedroom, but that was never an option for sleeping. So, the choices besides Aunt Anne's room were either a large bedroom with brown carpet (huge minus - spiders can hide in brown fairly well) and a few bedrooms downstairs that seemed uninhabited (huge minus - basement and uninhabited means possibility of more spiders).
Long story longer - I liked when I got to sleep in Aunt Anne's room. In fact, I didn't even care if I had to cram in there with five other kids. It was a comfortable and beautiful room. (Note: my grandparents actually have a beautiful home that has always had a slightly Frank Lloyd Wright feel to it and seemed to be ahead of it's time. Just wanted to make that clear.)
Today I was thinking about it and realized that all of us liked that room, but for very different reasons. I liked the light, airy and clean feel to the room. My sisters seemed to really like the dolls. I thought they were pretty cool for a couple of minutes and then I moved on.
So, all of us liked the result (being in the bedroom), but for different reasons.
If the dolls were taken out of the room, my sisters may not have gone in the room. If the living room had the light blue carpet, I would have been in the living room instead of that room. So, that would have produced different results (no one in the bedroom).
Am I the only person that finds this interesting?
I guess it makes me wonder about motivations in different parts of my life and yours. What motivates me? What do I really like about my job? What don't I like? Why do certain things bug me? Why do I make certain choices? Are my motivations healthy, wise, spiritual? Where will my motivations lead me in the long term?
This is just a start of a thought, and perhaps a little web research at some point, but it was just interesting to take a few moments to reflect on the fact that we all show up to the same places often (work, school, church, store, etc.), but so many different motivations and thought processes take place to get to the same spot. However, we freely leave those places for the same or different motivations.
Hmmm. Like I said, this is just a partial thought. I'm only halfway through it. Will have to think upon this further.
I'm still going to try to muddle through this half idea here.
My Aunt Anne has been on my mind for a few days because she died recently and I'm going to put her personal history into a book format so members of the family can have their own copy.
Whether it is true or not, my memory tells me that my Aunt Anne had the most beautiful bedroom at my grandparents home. I'm not sure if it started out as her room, but I remembered it being hers when I was a teenager and when we drove out west to visit my grandparents.
Here's my sister RaeAnna in the room.The bedroom is on the main floor (huge plus compared to the basement) of my grandparents home. It has (or perhaps had) a really nice sky blue carpet, light blue walls, and lots of beautiful dolls strategically placed around the room. It also had a large mirror on the wall nestled between two large closets. I have memories of getting my hair brushed and curled in front of that mirror.
My grandparents had a beautiful light green bedroom, but that was never an option for sleeping. So, the choices besides Aunt Anne's room were either a large bedroom with brown carpet (huge minus - spiders can hide in brown fairly well) and a few bedrooms downstairs that seemed uninhabited (huge minus - basement and uninhabited means possibility of more spiders).
Long story longer - I liked when I got to sleep in Aunt Anne's room. In fact, I didn't even care if I had to cram in there with five other kids. It was a comfortable and beautiful room. (Note: my grandparents actually have a beautiful home that has always had a slightly Frank Lloyd Wright feel to it and seemed to be ahead of it's time. Just wanted to make that clear.)
Today I was thinking about it and realized that all of us liked that room, but for very different reasons. I liked the light, airy and clean feel to the room. My sisters seemed to really like the dolls. I thought they were pretty cool for a couple of minutes and then I moved on.
So, all of us liked the result (being in the bedroom), but for different reasons.
If the dolls were taken out of the room, my sisters may not have gone in the room. If the living room had the light blue carpet, I would have been in the living room instead of that room. So, that would have produced different results (no one in the bedroom).
Am I the only person that finds this interesting?
I guess it makes me wonder about motivations in different parts of my life and yours. What motivates me? What do I really like about my job? What don't I like? Why do certain things bug me? Why do I make certain choices? Are my motivations healthy, wise, spiritual? Where will my motivations lead me in the long term?
This is just a start of a thought, and perhaps a little web research at some point, but it was just interesting to take a few moments to reflect on the fact that we all show up to the same places often (work, school, church, store, etc.), but so many different motivations and thought processes take place to get to the same spot. However, we freely leave those places for the same or different motivations.
Hmmm. Like I said, this is just a partial thought. I'm only halfway through it. Will have to think upon this further.
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