The Little World

Have you ever been in the middle of an internal war? When your heart says ” I must have it! “…and your brain says ” You cannot afford it! ” and then the two organs glare and spit at each other? It is particularly likely when you have just been to the hobby shop or the model exhibition. Your family probably recognises the symptoms and tries to avoid you for a couple of days.

Well there is hope. Every so often one of the other bits of your body comes to the rescue – if it is not your liver, battling against the publican, it will be your eyes – for occasionally they cry out ” But look, you fools! You possess it already but have not realised it. There are the various parts of your desire just waiting to be joined together! “.

I have just had that experience in my little Workshop as I sat there lusting after a custom-built modelling case to travel with. A whole day of lusting and nothing to eat while doing it. That’s hard work. Fortunately part of the lusting required me to gather up my modelling tools and lay them out to see what I needed to do and I was eventually struck by the fact that what I wanted to do was essentially there in front of me in disparate bits. It just needed some re-arranging of furniture and a couple of small duplicate items and I could accomplish all I wanted. A matter of a few hours and 1/10th of the cost of the original desire.

This is wonderful. It proves again the value of time and thought, as well as of a pencil and a pad of paper. If I was half as wise in other matters I would have a wardrobe fit to be seen and a full head of hair.