I asked another university student this afternoon what his opinions were on garage doors. Like many before him (and I'm sure many after him), he gave me a quick, quizzical eyebrow raise before answering, as if to say "what? why are you... okay. Um?"
It is very interesting to me that this is an issue few consider. They take it for granted. It's not that I believe so strongly that garage doors are in themselves inherently more important than any other aspect of daily life- it's that people tend to NOT SEE objects around them at all. No one thinks about lamps. Or window panes. Same thing with garage doors. And it is simply fascinating to quiz them like this on an aspect of their lives that they never ever ponder deeply.
So this university student. He pulled fown his headphones and zipped up his jacket absent-mindedly.
"Hmm. Let me think. I guess I don't really have an opinion on them."
I encouraged him to answer from as basic a standpoint as possible. It's not a value question, it's simply a "what do you think of when you think of garage doors?" question.
"I guess," he said, "they make me think of home. My parents' home. Where I grew up. My driveway, coming home like that every day, day in day out, for eighteen years. Before I came here. I guess I've had a pretyt stable life, now that I think about it. Not very many people are as lucky as me in that respect."
He gave me a softer smile now, a thinking smile. As if I had set him down in front of a much beloved Monet painting and patted him on the back.
"That's interesting," he said softly. "I miss home."
I thanked him for his time and he said, no. Thank you.
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