The Rush of Moving In

The wait is over. After all those months of budgeting and scrambling to make sure your bank account has enough funds to pay for your monthly amortization, you're finally given the keys to your very own place! Excitedly, you open the door and step into your new abode. A million ideas go through your head on how the interior should look. Inspired, you rush to the nearest furniture shop or department store to begin making your dream house. You're like a shopping machine. You devour the store and place every item you see and like into your shopping carts. Satisfied, you make your way to the payment counter and unload everything. After the lady finishes ringing up all your purchases you hand her your credit card. As you are about to let go, a voice shouts at you and tells you, "STOP! You are making a BIG mistake. A very big, expensive mistake!"

I know the urge to make your new house look like it just came out of a magazine can be very appealing especially when you have the funds for it but that is just not the way to go. Do you remember where you used to live? Maybe it was at your parent's house or some condominium unit in Makati or in a dormitory. How much stuff did you accumulate over the years? Didn't you have boxes and boxes of figurines, picture frames, towels, books, stuffed animals which were placed in the storage room? Before you moved to your new place, didn't you have so many things you didn't even know what you were going to do with them? Had you made all those purchases in that department store, it wouldn't have been long before your house would be brimming of things, and maybe junk, that you won't even have enough space for your comfort. 

So what should you do? Wait. Let time help you decorate your house. Surely, you'll be able to visit a new place and buy one or two souvenirs for decoration. Your siblings or relatives abroad might just give you the perfect centrepiece to place on your coffee table. You receive a cross-stitched painting for your birthday and you hang it onto your living room wall. Maybe you'll even get enough picture frames during Christmas for all your photos and, even if you're not an avid reader, somehow your shelves would still find a way to fill itself with books and magazines. 

There is no need to rush to fill your house with unnecessary things for decorative purposes. Wouldn't it be nicer if every piece of item in your house has a story? It would also be a very great conversation starter when you have visitors over and you'll never run out of things to talk about! At first, your residence may look bare but slowly, the spaces of your house would eventually be filled. Pretty soon, it will become a reflection of who you are and what you've gone through in life. Let your journey be reflected in your home, everything in it, a part of who you are.