4:30pm, an early day finish. I drove away from work, another facet of my life starts.
30km away from my clinic, there is a key for me to pick up. The key for the house I just bought and yet not completely settled……..
It has been planned for three years. After so much waiting and struggling with finance, finally the idea got into planning stage a year ago.
Searching and negotiation started since last three months. Here I am picking up the key.
I guess since I was born, I had never considered where I lived as a home.
Whether I wanted it or not, calling a place home, and for how long, was not a decision I could make.
Always in transit, that is my traveler’s life.
Always highly adaptive, made myself this way as it was required.
A house, where I can call it “home” is something I have always wanted since age of five, if not younger. Although it was not completely settled, this is still a step ahead.
In the agent’s office, end of the day, I picked up the key and handed a bottle of wine and Christmas card. Then I left to the house.
For the first time, I walk into a house and start considering buying proper furniture settings instead of eliminating it for removal convenience.
Instead of adapting the environment and making compromise, other options and controls to make a place more suitable living begin to unfold in front of my eyes.
This house is old, almost as old as me and renovated before it was put on market.
The smell of the fresh paint fulfilled the whole space as the door was opened.
The keys were tested, the lights, toilet, shower, and garage door were checked for their function. Sitting on the floor, the carpet is brand new. I am learning about a house from an owner’s perspective for the first time. (Of course, accepting the new bills such as mortgage, insurance, and council rates the first time too…… What a pain……)
Pest control and termite barrier needs to be organized. The shower floor needs to be reinforced. The tile roof needs some repairing. The lawn needs some mowing. Trees in the front and backyard needs some re-planting and branch trimming. The garden shed require some cleaning. For the first time, these are things that needed to be considered and done by myself for a place I live in. I guess there is always a price you have to pay and responsibilities you have to take for more control of “something” to be done in your way. Plenty of things here I never known, but this is what I was asking for. Once the control is in my hands, whatever comes with it, I shall face. I will learn and handle.
The next step will be relocating which I have done it a thousand times……
Although I never liked relocation, I got used to it. So it shouldn’t be too hard.
There are lots of shopping needs to be done. I started to plan my schedule as I walk out of the door. Lights were off, I drove away under the star sky…….
I am not a dreamer.
I develop ideas, assess the possibility and probability, re-directing, planning, constructing, and achieve what’s planned.
I never dreamed. I just make it happen.
The next target will be unfolded when the time is mature……..
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