The Power of Clothing

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by ebacon

Agreed.

I was guilty of thinking like that as my career progressed. Luckily I am predisposed to worry about maintenance. Whenever I had an opportunity to "grow" I worried that could not maintain it all. Of course I never earned enough to hire maintenance staff. If I were that wealthy in my younger years then I would have, I dunno, caved in on myself I guess.

Looking back on my experience, my desire for a bigger house and bigger boat would have quelled more quickly if I understood that the bigger house and bigger boat sounded more hollow when they were empty. People that have lived in big houses for generations probably have enough company to fill the halls with sounds. But to be a first generation in bigness and to listen to the silence of success? That's not in the marketing material for big homes and boats.

So, I guess, that's a long way to say that at this point in my life journey I would rather see cozy than see bigger. Cozy has people in it. Bigger is just bigger.

The house is just a place. It's the people that count.