Furniture?

As the fact that we are going to be spending the rest of our lives together registers more fully in my brain, I get more used to using a collective possessive pronoun. It is as simple, and indeed, as complicated as that. Most of the time, my brain has difficulty comprehending the scope of difference in my life in the past several years.

We think that the earliest years are the most formative because we need to work out and learn so much simultaneously. We need to manage walking, talking, recognizing and making sense of the world. We do massive growth inwardly and outwardly. However, I'm beginning to feel like these years are just as formative. When I think about the person that I was when I started college and the person that I have become by now... it staggers me. I am not trying to toot my own horn, but we change so much during these years.

We become less self-centered and look more to how we interrelate with others. We see people as systems and we see ourselves as part of something greater than the small sphere of our room or our friends or the people who congregate outside our locker. I don't know if the scope of this change will hit me until I have purchased some holiday towels and invite people to my home. Strange.

In less serious news, let me tell you how annoying/wonderful it is to go look for furniture. The scope of picking these things out... it's difficult to think about filing so much space! Anyone want to design and furnish my place for me? For free? Sigh...