Count Your Blessings #132 – An Ikea Sofa-Bed

In the upstairs study where I spend much of my working life is an Ikea sofa-bed. It’s not a grand sofa-bed, in normal Ikea style it’s quite a simple affair. There’s little more to it than a metal frame, some wooden slats and two large pieces of foam. Yet for all its simplicity this sofa-bed is a real blessing to me.

For me, this sofa-bed represents a place of quiet, a place to stop and to relax.

At the other side of the room from this sofa-bed is my desk covered in all sorts of detritus; bills to pay, letters to be responded to as well as more than my fair share of technical gubbins associated with my work.

The sofa-bed is different though, it’s a place of tranquillity.

It’s almost like it’s a room of two halves, but to put a divide between the two would be a mistake. It’s not the contents of the room that make the difference it’s really my attitude to what happens in the different places. The desk can be quite a stressful place as I’m trying to get my work done. When i make time to be quiet I sit on the sofa-bed.

There’s are few things I like more than to sit on the sofa-bed with a cup of coffee and to write in my journal while the technical gubbins provides some quiet relaxing music.

The desk is a place of labour and stress. The sofa-bed is a place to stop and contemplate, because that is what I have made them.

It’s a blessing to have a place of quiet.