peaceful tranquility
The interior decoration of my flat is entirely the responsibility of its previous owners.
Having made that clear, I can tell you about the wallpaper in my bedroom. It mostly consists of a cream background, with purple spirals of varying sizes in a fairly regular, but soothing, pattern. When you look at it right up close, you also notice there are words written on there too ... soothing words written in loopy relaxed handwriting.
Peaceful tranquility
Calmness and serenity
Oasis of calm
Over and over, at soothingly spaced intervals, alternating with another wee three-liner expressing similar sentiments.
On one level, this is just an insight into the fuzzy concept of "nice bedroom wallpaper" which some people in the world must have. On another level, hopefully not making too much of this, it sets me off on a minor rant. Not that it takes much to do that, of course. But does saying these words really change anything about the situation - the state of the room or state of the reader? - is it really the case that a peaceful tranquil atmosphere is created simply by virtue of the words being written up somewhere in the room. Actually, to be more specific, what gets me going is the connection this mentality has with the gouranga people who keep popping up all over the place (if that's even how you spell them). If something bad has happened to me, how exactly does it help, to say Be Happy? Merely saying the words won't make me happy, except on a very superficial wishful level. (Especially when the gouranga man I'm talking to suggests that my age is about thirty, but that's another story.)
Basically it's just the same old human search for happiness and peace, looking in the wrong places and trying the wrong methods, never finding and never giving up ... There is a place to find peace and there are clearly defined methods for getting there, but we just don't want to look there, don't want to try those ways, it's all too much to swallow. That's why we need grace that's irresistible.
Meanwhile, I've turned down the chance to be entered in a prize draw which could have "won" me £40,000 to spend on either my kitchen or my bedroom, so suggestions for a more tasteful and less conceptually loaded look for my bedroom (on a realistic budget) will be welcomed.
Having made that clear, I can tell you about the wallpaper in my bedroom. It mostly consists of a cream background, with purple spirals of varying sizes in a fairly regular, but soothing, pattern. When you look at it right up close, you also notice there are words written on there too ... soothing words written in loopy relaxed handwriting.
Peaceful tranquility
Calmness and serenity
Oasis of calm
Over and over, at soothingly spaced intervals, alternating with another wee three-liner expressing similar sentiments.
On one level, this is just an insight into the fuzzy concept of "nice bedroom wallpaper" which some people in the world must have. On another level, hopefully not making too much of this, it sets me off on a minor rant. Not that it takes much to do that, of course. But does saying these words really change anything about the situation - the state of the room or state of the reader? - is it really the case that a peaceful tranquil atmosphere is created simply by virtue of the words being written up somewhere in the room. Actually, to be more specific, what gets me going is the connection this mentality has with the gouranga people who keep popping up all over the place (if that's even how you spell them). If something bad has happened to me, how exactly does it help, to say Be Happy? Merely saying the words won't make me happy, except on a very superficial wishful level. (Especially when the gouranga man I'm talking to suggests that my age is about thirty, but that's another story.)
Basically it's just the same old human search for happiness and peace, looking in the wrong places and trying the wrong methods, never finding and never giving up ... There is a place to find peace and there are clearly defined methods for getting there, but we just don't want to look there, don't want to try those ways, it's all too much to swallow. That's why we need grace that's irresistible.
Meanwhile, I've turned down the chance to be entered in a prize draw which could have "won" me £40,000 to spend on either my kitchen or my bedroom, so suggestions for a more tasteful and less conceptually loaded look for my bedroom (on a realistic budget) will be welcomed.
posted by cath at
12:24 am
1 Comments:
cath, i love that wallpaper. don't diss it. you could, however, tippex out the words and it would be a lesser source of provocation.
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