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Wow, that is a great save!

It boils down to an idea of "personal taste" but in the context of consumerism, or what we surround ourselves with, which is often directly attached to a feeling of self worth. We are bombarded all day with "365 DIY Ideas" and "Trends for Fall 2012" when it's not even fall yet. So often, it's all a variation of one idea, like the million takes on the "Keep Calm And Carry On." It can be refreshing, almost a rush to find something new that you feel speaks to you - and it can be disappointing to see the thing you embraced, what has become 'your' thing, embraced just as strongly by everyone else. We want to keep things personal in an over-shared world. On the bright side, we are constantly reinventing ourselves instead of sitting with the same exact decor for decades like our grandparent's generation. In them there can be an unwillingness to change, a general freezing of taste, opinions, and perspectives even against the biggest tides of change. Our own generation adapts, reshapes quickly, but that can also clearly be our downfall, and with trends being recycled so often it's hard to tell what to hold onto for later and what should be trashed. Finding the middle, liking what you like even if you see it grow on pinterest, and still being open to re-aligning your tastes or bedroom paint color, is something (I think) most of us will spend our wholes lives balancing as we constantly change and grow in life. What you liked when you were twenty shouldn't be what you like when you're thirty.