Home Ownership
When Joe and I first bought our house, we ran into a problem. No, the problem wasn't in the house itself. The house was and still is an amazing place to live. As Thomas Paine said, "I had rather see my horse, Button, eating the grass of Bordentown, than see all the show and pomp of Europe." It's true! I really can't ask for more. I have amazing neighbors. We get together and do things. I can walk into their houses without knocking, not that I usually do, but it's possible. They feel comfortable knocking for no good reason, occassionally in the middle of the night when they see the light is on. They use my yard as a path between alleys. I sit on their porches. We have parties. I could go on and on, but this neighborhood has proved to be full of ecentricities that are beyond amazing. The Delaware is two blocks away and the paths that follow its boundaries are vast and adventuresome. So many things keep me loving where I am. But as I was saying, when we bought our house, we had a problem.
We lost all our old friends. For a while, it was the joke of it all when we'd bring up the concept of "who'd do it first?" referring to marriage and babies..but when we bought the house, we felt the brunt of the whole game. No, we didn't realize it at first. We were naive to the idea..we were the first..and we'd meet people from work who would bring up the concept of "House Envy". Of course, several of them had similar stories, of course, not nearly as extreme as ours but definately similar. And so it came to be. It was really time to start a new life.
Well today, some of those people, that snubbed us off, have found themselves in a similar position as we were two years ago. I wish them the very best of luck and hope that they can only find the same joy that we have in our home. I wish that they don't have to endure the heartache that we did with their more current friends. Hopefully, coming to their own might make them think..if only things were different.
When we bought our house, we'd said that the most important thing was sharing it. What good is a house when you have noone to share it with? We had to start over. It was a clean slate. Now we find ourselves with many wonderful people to share our house with. We often wish we could just share it with them, in the first place.
Maybe they'll never realize what they've done. Maybe they don't need to. It just feels good to send out into the void. Good luck with the house!
When Joe and I first bought our house, we ran into a problem. No, the problem wasn't in the house itself. The house was and still is an amazing place to live. As Thomas Paine said, "I had rather see my horse, Button, eating the grass of Bordentown, than see all the show and pomp of Europe." It's true! I really can't ask for more. I have amazing neighbors. We get together and do things. I can walk into their houses without knocking, not that I usually do, but it's possible. They feel comfortable knocking for no good reason, occassionally in the middle of the night when they see the light is on. They use my yard as a path between alleys. I sit on their porches. We have parties. I could go on and on, but this neighborhood has proved to be full of ecentricities that are beyond amazing. The Delaware is two blocks away and the paths that follow its boundaries are vast and adventuresome. So many things keep me loving where I am. But as I was saying, when we bought our house, we had a problem.
We lost all our old friends. For a while, it was the joke of it all when we'd bring up the concept of "who'd do it first?" referring to marriage and babies..but when we bought the house, we felt the brunt of the whole game. No, we didn't realize it at first. We were naive to the idea..we were the first..and we'd meet people from work who would bring up the concept of "House Envy". Of course, several of them had similar stories, of course, not nearly as extreme as ours but definately similar. And so it came to be. It was really time to start a new life.
Well today, some of those people, that snubbed us off, have found themselves in a similar position as we were two years ago. I wish them the very best of luck and hope that they can only find the same joy that we have in our home. I wish that they don't have to endure the heartache that we did with their more current friends. Hopefully, coming to their own might make them think..if only things were different.
When we bought our house, we'd said that the most important thing was sharing it. What good is a house when you have noone to share it with? We had to start over. It was a clean slate. Now we find ourselves with many wonderful people to share our house with. We often wish we could just share it with them, in the first place.
Maybe they'll never realize what they've done. Maybe they don't need to. It just feels good to send out into the void. Good luck with the house!
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