Trahan Odyssey

Fear is powerful; a powerful word, powerful emotion, powerful weapon, a powerful enemy.  I’ve been spending several weekends working on house renovations with many of the projects being “firsts” for me.  For instance, I installed wood laminate flooring in the kitchen which was my first experience with wood flooring besides walking on it somewhere else.  It seemed simple in the store, in the box, stacked in columns with a smiling salesman standing next to them with all the answers.  It’s alter ego quickly showed itself when freed from the confines of it’s plastic protected world.

I jumped into the project with some quick progress, placing several rows out.  It soon became increasingly difficult to get new boards to snap in across board boundaries, finally getting to a point where I threw up my hands in frustration not sure where to go next or what to make of the situation or how to fix it.  My thoughts, my words, my actions all yelled “I can’t do this.”  Sitting on the front stairs I resolved to find someone and pay them to fix what I was sure was a total mess.  Honestly I was in way over my head and the only wisdom I found was in admitting my inabilities.

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