Back to the coalface again this morning but not before I'd gone shopping again for a roller tray for the paint and then, what do you think I found hanging on a shelf besides some small tins of paint....why, an extendable paint roller, of course. Now the dear SO and I had discussed buying one of these beauties only last week and he, of course, being the dab hand that he is, at all things to do with painting and building and putting kitchens together, simply pooh-poohed the very idea of buying such a silly and unnecessary piece of equipment.
And even I had conjectured that it would probably be very unwieldy to handle and manoeuvre and hardly, or not all, worthy of the extra charge such a potentially useless piece of kit it would be, to ever disgrace a builder's kit bag!
Well, I ask you, how wrong can one man or woman be, simply to ignore the possibility of a tool or anything, being effacasious in the right hands or at the right time, to any individual?
Of course, the dear SO wouldn't be seen dead with such a piece of kit and why, because he's been painting and building and putting things together for all his life, and I might add, so have his forebears and, of course, it has always come so naturally and easy to him and them, so why on earth would they ever consider it a requirement to purchase any extra costly tool to do a job, when their basic and trusty tools can be made to do anything they wish, just by their very nature and understanding of things and their innate sense of how things should be, and be done?
But.and here's that word again...but, we are not all the same, I mean, are we? We all have talents and gifts; some more and others less, while others have entirely different and unrelated gifts. And sadly, there are some people who never understand their gifts and sadder too, the people who believe they simply do not possess anything at all of the nature of a given gift or talent or perception or a sensitivity about; they simply feel useless.
Now I have my full quota of gifts but, when it comes to painting and decorating, I have always firmly believed that it was something I should steer myself completely away from. So apart from a rather lacklustre attempt a few year's ago to paint the interior of a property of mine, and when I called on the services of my children to come and help me out, I have to tell you I've made no effort to decorate or even contemplate the possibility of taking up pot and paint, and gone to it like a decorator.
Therefore, it was with some trepidation that I undertook to get to grips with pot, brush and paint now, and....well, here we are, on my fourth paint be-splattered day, actually as pleased as punch with my new-worked skill of being able to make a rather dark and dingy wall, look almost attractive in its new glossy paint coating! Ecstatic, well I jolly well am, plus somewhat pooped and slightly exhausted from all the effort and energy exercised by little me today!
That one tool revolutionised my previously clumsy attempts into smoothly sublime wrist actions, lifting my spirits and encouraging my creative energy to rise to the challenge standing before.
So, what is entirely unnecessary to one human being maybe just the very thing to get another moving forwards, gloriously, into higher levels of achievement, just by the expedient of a little positive step into the unknown.
Daisy xxx
PS You just never know what you can achieve unless you push yourself forward and.......have a go at something different or untried, or an attempt at something at which, earlier, you have failed miserably.
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