More than Meets the Eye

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, this past week I moved out of my house in DC, and moved into an apartment where I’ll be staying for the next few months while figuring out the next steps in life.  The apartment I’m in has pretty thick carpet on the floor, and I didn’t want to move on the carpet for hours a day, so off I went to Home Depot to “create” a studio for myself.  

My first attempt failed…turns out, laminate planks over carpet simply doesn’t work when it comes to stability and staying together…so after a very unstable day of classes, back I went to Home Depot to return my first attempt and get my next.

My next attempt was a sheet of plywood and a roll of wood-grain laminate…and let me tell you, I miss my boys, but I really missed my boys when carrying a sheet of plywood by myself.  Even so, I was successful at this attempt, I was successful at getting the plywood on my car and ratcheting it down with compression straps with both gratitude for the guy who helped me put it on my car, and only mild annoyance about the same guy hovering around me to see if I could actually attach it to my car safely.  I was successful at getting said plywood from my car into my apartment (and was so very grateful for my own strong and capable body while doing so).  And, most importantly, I really like the way my studio turned out, it feels stable and good and I love the way it looks.

As I’ve been in my studio the past couple of days though, I can’t help but think how my studio set-up parallels something that I think we all struggle with.  We all live our own experiences, we all deeply see our own hardships…but sometimes, I think, we see others' lives from outsiders perspectives, and we assume their lives are better than our own, they’re happier, they’re more fulfilled, they have fewer problems.  And granted, that might be the case…but oftentimes, like with my studio, there’s more than what we can see.

I wonder how it might feel if, when we inevitably start assuming others’ lives are easier than our own, we take a step back and recognize that there might just be more than meets the eye.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista