Living in a tiny house changed how the speaker buys books. Instead of instant purchases, they use the library and inter-library loans, waiting weeks for titles to arrive. That anticipation, that slow arrival, feels better than buying something ready-made.
I think we're touching around this idea of maybe a handmade something versus a, you know, instant purchased something. And the instant satisfaction of, like, oh, I have it today, right? I can go on and order something. And it appears. And something about the way that we're living at this moment where we've really completely shaken up our, you know, living space, our habits, our patterns, everything is just like a whole new reinvention. And one of those is, you know, like I said, I love to gather books, right? But if you're in a tiny house, you don't have room for piles of books, or you can't get, you know, to the kitchen. And so realizing, oh, the public library, like, that that's where I need to reconnect. And connecting with that community of other people who love reading is a huge thing. And then realizing we live in a really fairly small town at this point, and, you know, the local library doesn't have everything I want, but I love these moments when I want a book and we don't have it anywhere in our county. And they say, well, we could do a loan. You know, we could reach out to other counties to try to get it. But it's going to be a really long time. I mean, are you up for waiting? I'm like, yeah, I'm totally up for waiting. Because now I get to, like, be excited, right? Like, when's it going to come? And then all of a sudden, I get this text message, go to the library, books there. And I'm like, all right. It's like the most exciting moment of the day. And I think that there's something that I'm enjoying about the anticipation of things that aren't inst.
