Building Houses

This man keeps me semi-sane. Here is our latest conversation about this blog.

At any rate, I think my next post is going to be on building houses. That will give you a good idea about what I mean when I say this list is mostly figurative or metaphorical or whatever the hell.

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On slashdot we always just use car analogies.

"Horace" • 2 mins

Hey, that's a good idea. I think I have an idea of something i could say on that one.

*scribbling on my list*

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There's still room?

"Horace" • Now

Sadly no, but I do have a brand new cigarette carton box top.

Anyway, away we go with the subject of building houses.

As I mentioned previously, my brother, sister and I would build houses out of two by fours on the lawn in the backyard. That is, we would build floor plans of houses. The interesting thing is that they nearly always turned out to be precisely the floor plan of the house we lived in. Young children can be a bit constrained that way.

However, one day I decided to switch it up and put the bedrooms on the other side of the house. Oh dear. What a mistake that was. In order for it to work the kitchen would have ended up in the living room and then where we supposed to put the Christmas tree? Turns out that architecture wasn't my true calling.

The brain, or at least MY brain, seems to work that same way. It developed to reflect precisely the way I was taught by my parents. And I didn't question it until much later. The brain gets stuck in its own little rut.

Naturally as I grew older I started to rebel and the kitchen ended up in the living room. The house I was building in my brain was an absolute mess. In order to set things straight I had to rely on a professional to help me discover a better brain architecture.

Fortunately, the kitchen is no longer in the living room and I have a place for the Christmas tree. Every once in a while, though, that dang kitchen still tends to stray a bit. Hope yours is staying put.