Spaces

Take a second to look around your surrounding, whether it be your bathroom, the living room, your car, or your bedroom; it must, however, be a space you claim ownership over, and notice how foreign it all looks to you. Or rather, not how foreign it all looks but how foreign it truly is. For how it looks is in fact familial and comforting and negligible since we see it so often we take it for granted. But not a granted taken knowingly. Give it some time. Really meditate on the idea of the space and let go of all preconceptions about it. See it as a new blank space void of your "personal touch". We're just so accustomed to seeing, or rather being surrounded by it that we don't pay any attention to it. It just is. But take a second to notice it's true lack of connection and little genuine association to your true self. It is no different than that of an environment found halfway around the world. Some things that obstruct our line of sight when trying to perceive the true nature of our environment are the so-called decorations we use to ordain our spaces. We feel the need to give the space a sort of, almost literal, makeover and initiate it into our tribe of comfortable things that appease our egos. Without these decorations the space is nothing more than a space. Confines. They say nothing about you. And on an unrelated, yet somehow, I feel, related note, it's important to stop and really take in the space you take for granted because it will tell you that you are not who you think you are, you are not made up by your environment, you should be grateful for this space, and let it be a humbling experience; to know that all the effort you put into making a space look pretty maybe useful in one route of life but is completely irrelevant in the other and that your space is not obligated to do anything for you nor represent you and that you have a responsibility to yourself to uphold yourself as the image of the self you want to represent.