It’s 1 a.m. and I am sitting in my room on a video call with my brother who keeps asking why I am showing him my yellow-green wall. I don’t tell him that I just bought a smiling neon light to make my room feel 10 times more homey.
I am probably delusional and justifying it because I spent money on it — just like the cabinet I bought on clearance last week. Odds are, either I will get bored of the light, or it’ll fall off the wall because of the command strips I hung it with. The last time I hung something on my wall with command strips, it fell off and broke. I would use nails, but my landlord will charge me if I drill into his antique wall. Okay, let’s not blame everything on him; I don’t even know how to use a drill and I won’t buy one just for this.
Tonight, I am grateful and happy. I have already sent three people a picture of my room to show off how pretty it looks. So, maybe you should not overthink things and buy what brings you joy. It’s worth it; just don’t do it every week.
