WHY THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER
There are many warm and fuzzy sayings about owning your own home, not least of which is one by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard: “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
It’s this shelter for daydreaming, undisturbed by demands and jealousies, that makes us yearn for a home of our own.
And so, from the vantage point of the second-storey window, I move the curtain aside. I breathe and take in the view, a perspective I could be seeing for the rest
