So here’s a weird true story for you with a metaphor for life…
We moved into our family home 14 years ago, and the owners had a double door between two bedrooms that locked with a special key. Our two young sons wanted their own rooms, but often would play together with those double doors open between their rooms.
That key was the only way to keep the doors closed, and with two young kids, we guarded it with our lives.
What if we lost the key?
What if the boys were playing with it, locking each other in and out and they lost the special key?
Fast forward 14 years to yesterday, when we were replacing the carpet on that side of the house. We needed to open the doors between the boys’ rooms, which had been locked since they became teens.
But we couldn’t find the key.
It wasn’t in the special key spot we’d used for years (a hidden mug on a shelf). Frantic texts to the boys yielded a no from both of them. My husband tried a zillion different allen keys, with no luck.
The worst had happened. After worrying we’d lose the key for 14 years, we finally lost the KEY. We’d have to remove the doors from the hinges to get the carpet installed, and then…
My husband googled ‘round key with ridges double doors’ and found that Bunnings carries THOUSANDS of them.
For $3.
In fact, we must have walked by walls of those keys every Saturday for 14 years when we were at the hardware store.
Yep, it’s a metaphor for life.
Most of the things we worry about never happen. All that time is lost.
And even if we do actually lose the key, sometimes it is laughably easy to just FIGURE IT OUT.
If you’re worrying about something today, is there a chance that maybe it isn’t such a big worry after all? Maybe it’ll be easy. Maybe the solution will pop up before you have to rip doors off their hinges.
Maybe this time, it will be a simple fix with no downside.
I hope so! You deserve every good thing, especially this year when life has been hard.
Happy Friday.
Love Catherine x
PS.
If you’re in Sydney and you need to replace carpets, you may want to get a quote from the guys who helped me this week. The price was almost 40% less than the exact same carpet installed from a provider in my upper north shore suburb. What?! Email me for info — happy to help you!
And because everyone loves a good before & after…(my older son, the one whose day job is law school and hobby is becoming a BBQ pit master, spilled a tray of meat and juice on this carpet six months ago. That’s why it looks SO BAD.)
Before…
After!
It’s hard to take a photo of carpet that shows the colour properly. It’s actually lighter than it looks here…but so much better!
