Lucy's Side Quest #2: A Room of My Own
For those who don't know this already, I have a private instagram account, and I use it as my space to grow: test ideas, track progress, and perceive myself.
One of the posts I uploaded last semester was made the day after I had the best day of the semester solo tripping down Boston Mass Ave. I bleached my eyebrows with @tumblasha. And then I posted this photo like so.
And then I became more myself.
My changes these last two semesters were substantially guided by the private spaces I own. The instagram account is one, and my room is the other. I can trace my influences for this idea to a book I read during my gap year by Virginia Woolf: "A Room of One's Own."
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." - Virginia Woolf
But not just fiction, I apply it to creative expression in general. To have a place separate from the perception of others, with distance from those who have this pre-conceived notion of who you are and what you can do, has been so critical for me. To possess, to curate, to arrange, the things around me for just myself, has been a luxury and blessing as well.
I took photos of it to commemorate it. As I leave for an independent living group next year. And to remember how much it has done for me in the past year.
Haha. I'm so glad now that @anas-bizarre-adventure wanted a single instead of rooming with me this year. If I know anything now, it's that Ana knows everything I know but a semester or two ahead of me.
Okay, now to study and pack!
