… believe it or not, there is another room! Just let that sink in. I have viewed hundreds of properties in my profession and seen all kind, the good, the bad and the ugly. Some properties just keep giving. On the outside it looks compact, small if you like. And then you go in, look round and you think you are done, but the agent tells you there is yet another room, and sometimes another and even another if you are lucky. One house with more than you expect or think possible.
A child is given a box of chocolate, opens it to reveal a layer/tray with diverse kinds of chocolate, he couldn’t contain himself as he carefully chooses his first one and pops it into his mouth. Carefully again, he covered the box of chocolate, put it somewhere safe and only ate one chocolate on special occasions and that was how he lived his life with the one layer/tray of chocolate. Nobody ever told him him there was another layer of chocolate beneath the first layer and he never thought to check. Another child was given the same box of chocolate, he was excited as well and hurriedly ate two and kept the box. Within a couple of hours the box was out again. He checked the leaflet in the box to be sure he knew the different types of chocolate he had. He lifted the box to see what was written underneath, he checked all the sides, in all his poking and probing he realised the height of the box was higher than the layer/tray of chocolate he had seen and that was when he tipped the box upside down and voila! There! Another layer!
Some are content with their one tray/layer of chocolate. Others say there must be more. Most will stay in their room and make the very best of it. Content they are to live within the confines of the four walls of the room. The room they know is the only one that exists and that is just it. Others wake up one morning and suddenly feel claustrophobic, there is an agitation, the walls are too near, they feel like the walls are closing in, the room no longer feels right. And this is when the search starts. The search for what is unclear, a different city, the other room, sooner or later curiosity leads us to the door of the next room and bravery the keys that opens the next door.
In all these we have a choice, on one hand, stay contended in the one room and rearrange the furnitures from time to time, decorate and redecorate if you please, eat one tray of chocolate and be grateful or on the other hand, explore, be curious, step out of the room, turn the chocolate box upside down. Some say “the future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out.”
I know there is another room, I feel it in my bones and when the walls of my current room starts to close in on me, it is time to turn things upside down, to allow curiosity to take me to the door of the next room and bravery the key to get in.
There is another room!
Beautiful Ivory 