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Life is full of choices \u2013 and in order to say \u2018Yes\u2019 to one thing, we have to say \u2018No\u2019 to others. For economists, this is an implication of the fundamental economic problem \u2013 that we cannot have all the things that we want. And because of this scarcity, we have to make choices \u2013 not only about the items we plan to buy but about how we spend our free time and significant life-decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Homesick: why I live in a shed\u2019 is a book by Catrina Davies about her experiences of housing. Faced with paying rent that was crippling financially, she opted to, as the title says, \u2018live in a shed\u2019 in Cornwall. This decision in itself brings hardships and a life without running hot water, electricity or space for possessions. Part of this book is about the unfairness of the economic system and, particularly the Cornish housing market where the low and moderately-paid have an almost impossible job trying to afford to live there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this book is also about how we think of \u2018home\u2019. It may inspire us to have more gratitude to our families who sheltered us during our childhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHome is fundamental, like teeth and feet and sleep and love. Home is a necessary part of the scaffolding that lets us get on with the business of living.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies argues that housing is all too often a matter of assets and wealth-management rather than an issue of ensuring that everyone has somewhere to call home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe irony of turning houses into money and reducing homes to casino chips is that it undermines everybody\u2019s freedom. It\u2019s not just the people at the bottom of the ladder who are exploited and enslaved, working stupid hours to pay off somebody else\u2019s mortgage. It\u2019s also the people halfway up, commuting stupid hours, doing jobs that ruin their bodies and their minds, keeping the walls of their houses white, because that\u2019s what estate agents prefer, and half an eye on the market, because a crash would cost a lifetime of drudgery. And the people at the top, living in prisons of their own making, fortresses designed to keep the homeless and the desperate out. Even kind and generous people with homes they cherish and have already paid for spending half their lives trying to justify their luck, tripping over rough sleepers, riddled with guilt\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst moving into a shed may not be a choice many of us would relish, this book makes one think \u2013 about the choices we have and the lives we have open to us. Davies has, it seems, discovered insights that are important to her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome days, when the evening sun is lighting up my floorboards and my bones are full of the ocean and my skin is thick with salt, I even find a kind of peace. The peace of knowing that the true art of living is not to gather things and polish then and lay them out for others to admire, but to have next to nothing, get plenty out of it, and give the rest away.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To arrange a free 30-minute consultation to discuss how BWRT\u00ae<\/a>, hypnotherapy<\/a> or counselling<\/a> can help you to change your life for the better, contact Jonathan at The Body Matters on 01702 714968.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life is full of choices \u2013 and in order to say \u2018Yes\u2019 to one thing, we have to say \u2018No\u2019 to others. For economists, this is an implication of the fundamental economic problem \u2013 that we cannot have all the things that we want.<\/p>\n

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