A System
No matter how messy it is in your house, you are the only person who can understand where everything is and how important these things are. When someone else tries to understand what you have built over time, it becomes even more confusing. It’s hard to imagine organizing this mess because once inside, you don’t know what each thing represents. Her grandfather had a system in his house.
It was complicated, too complicated for Leo. Rather than giving up, the family decided to keep trying. But the little boy knew some details: his grandpa kept each object in a specific place. Once, Leo had moved an object and when he came back the next day, it was back in its original place. “It surely means something.”