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How to Easily Change Your Perspective
A Custodian Approach to Ownership
Ownership?
For many years we lived in an old house, ‘old’ by housing standards (500+ years), not so old by planet standards.
What I noticed for all the years I lived there was that I never felt as if i really ‘owned’ it. I mean, I had the mortgage papers and the stuff was mine, but I also felt the expanse of the generations who’d lived there before me, and who would after. It didn’t feel as if it was ‘mine’; it always felt more like I was a custodian, someone honoured to live there but only temporarily.
I’ve thought more about ownership, especially relating to property, since we moved into a town a couple of years ago and witnessed close up the mini-battles over parking spaces and gardens. At one level, understandable, but, at another, it seems totally weird to me that humans should be arguing over a few yards of pavement.
Changing Perspective
So what?
Who cares about the house I used to live in?
What does it matter what I think about these things other than it’s a reflection of my own personal weirdness?
Well nothing, of course.
