Room and sun

From June onwards residents of Australia and New Zealand will be welcoming winter (unwillingly). We will spend 1/4 of the year waking to cloudy skies and murky days instead of sunshine. As for now, it is pleasant. Given two months time it would be drastic but not as brutal as New York’s winter or equivalent.

I do not consider myself to be greatly affected by the changes surrounding me. However, the effect does affect me. Nonetheless, I take control of it. I love and embrace change. It gives me reasons to improve, a chance to think creative and a stepping stone to look ahead. Change, in my opinion, should be everybody’s focal point. I believe it is the same theory why we work towards a promotion and bid goodbye to demotion.

Rearranging furnitures is one of the pleasures in life that I delight in. I neither work well with fixtures nor do I any problems with it. I redesign my room every 4 to 6 months in a year. I would have made a very good interior decorator if I had chosen to study interior design. I believe not many of us are able to make a career with our interest without risking the passion. You either graduate or you loose your pastime.

Last Sunday, I came home with one thing in mind-rearrange my room. It wasn’t messy to begin with and I was all right with the layout. The drawback of this arrangement given to the current season was the lack of sun. It was ideal during summer as it gave me substantial ray to get me going but not for the future. It will only promote me to stay in bed longer which I don’t intend despite the winter chills.

I stood in the middle envisioning the layout I had imagined in my mind. This is, needless to say, the smallest room I have to myself. I removed all the furnitures, bits and pieces, books along with other miscellaneousness. I forgot to consider one thing in the midst of rearranging and I was mindful about it when I glanced my table lamp at the end. Putting that aside, I directed my bed to a corner of two walls overlooking my window followed by my side table and desk.

The newly formed design is not only inviting and becoming but also personal. I started to organise my paperback, stationaries as well as other daily things. Finally the time came for me to think where to place the lamp shade. My initial thought was how egocentric the contractor was. Not having enough plugs can be a cruelty when you have more than one gadgets needing power.

When the contractors were building my room back home, I told my dad I would like to have 10 plugs and 1 television plug. He wasn’t astonished because he too believes in a vast network of adaptors. Coming back to my current room situation, I had to make do with what I was given and there wasn’t a way to put my study lamp on the side table. If only builders had a long term projection of occupants misery. I settled by putting the table lamp on the window sill and was happy with it. This would give adequate light when I lie in bed reading.

Suddenly, I had a brilliant notion how to wake up in winter. As you know, human beings are very much affected by the weather and I am guilty of this. No sun says much about counterproductive. To keep laziness at bay, all I have to do is to switch on the lamp at my first wake and get used to the ray of light. It is natural not to wake up and smell the coffee during winter time.

With this new do, I shouldn’t have a reason to be idle with the exception of sleep in. Guilty as charged!

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