Of New Furniture, Evolution & Maybe Some Growing Up.

We have been the ultimate furniture-warriors over the past few weeks, both of us trying our best to find us the perfect couch, dining table, coffee table, dresser and such like for the new house.

We went to every furniture store and online site we could think of. We got overwhelmed, underwhelmed, appalled, overjoyed and downright miserable (thanks to our pricey tastes). Budget aside the next big criteria is obviously, it has to be something we both fall in love with at first site (Like the new house !! It is the most beautiful place our bank accounts could rent and we loved it the minute we saw it.) and if you are us then you would know how exasperating that can be. 

We did find our dream couch and our dream dining table last weekend at our dream store. Of course now the dream has turned us bankrupt, but we can still sit at our perfect dining table and eat air ! Totally worth it ! 

When we signed the lease on our new house, I thought nothing could overcome that feeling of joy and pride and accomplishment. Little did I know choosing, liking (both of us) and buying furniture is downright all that times 10 ! I got all teary and we got extremely cuddly and that stayed that way for a while. And all because of furniture ! Of course we got over it fairly quickly with the argument about whose turn it is to take the trash down but while it lasted, it was terrific ! 

Initially, we had planned on going easy with the furniture, because we really don't know where we will be two years from now. In case we go back to India, we won't be able to carry all the furniture back and hence it would be wasteful to spend a small fortune now. And if we did stay on here and eventually bought a house of our own, we would have to buy furniture to suit that place and be a little more grown up than what we can envision right now, and hence render our current buys redundant again. Basically, we figured, it would be wisest to wait for things to fall in place before we start investing towards building our perfect world.

But something changed last weekend at our dream store. Among the rows of pretty furniture and soft lighting and pleasing music and smiley salespeople....very quietly, without much debate, through the path of least resistance a light bulb went off in two separate heads at the same moment. 

Why delay and deny ourselves the joy of riding the wave right now just because we don't know how long it will last ? We can make every wave a perfect one and ride it till it lasts right ? And when it does crash, we can just get up and go find a new wave to make our own. That is what growing up, moving on, evolving, adapting and all those grown up words are all about right ? Right !