she'd done enough residential architecture to know that the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge. It happens every time: a forty-thousand-dollar kitchen remodel becomes a seventy-five-thousand-dollar kitchen remodel {because everyone comes to believe that small differences make big differences}, becomes a new exit to the garden {to bring more light into the enhanced kitchen}, becomes a new bathroom {if you're already sealing off the floor for work …}, becomes stupidly rewiring the house to be smart {so you can control the music in the kitchen with your phone}, becomes passive-aggression over whether the new bookshelves should be on legs {to reveal the inlaid floor borders}, becomes aggressive-aggression whose origin can no longer be remembered. One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.
( Jonathan Safran Foer )
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