Ambiance can be powerful. It's a concept I carry through in my design work, but the effects are also noticeable in the day-to-day. As I sat at work this morning, I was somewhat prepared to take on the pile of papers and books before me...but then I was hit. The smells in the air (one of which was my own perfume), the slight chill swirling about me, the song that popped up on my iPod's shuffle mode (Laura Veirs' "Pink Light", in case you were wondering...I'm just about obsessed with it at the moment), the faint whir-and-hum from the air ventilation unit...they all seem like such insignificant fragments, but they came together and created the spark that I needed. Now I feel ready to take on my work, to do whatever it takes to excel. I haven't been working this hard to achieve mediocrity (but unfortunately, I have ended up with such results, and the reasoning is beyond me). This is quite a phenomenon, at least in the corners of my mind, and it's something I might explore in the future...but for the time being, it's "focus, focus, focus".
(Don't you love it when the pieces fit together?)
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