On Shopping

Good evening.

I went shopping a little while ago. It was still warm out.

I wonder if it will start turning cold before long.

On today's trip I bought storage goods, phone accessories, and the like.

I almost never buy anything other than food and books,

so it had been a very long time since I'd done this kind of shopping.

I had been caught in a fixed idea, a strange one now that I think about it: that even if I bought something beyond the necessities, I wouldn't really use it.

Once I bought them, they turned out to be very handy: a stand that holds my phone upright, a storage shelf, a box that keeps the power cords together.

Trying things out is not so bad after all. It makes my life richer. I had found one of my own extreme ways of thinking.

I simply haven't noticed them yet,

but I'm sure there are other assumptions I hold that work against me.

This made me want to find more of them.

Assumptions like that will probably surface again at some unexpected moment.

I hope that when they do, I will be able to take the first step toward a new challenge.