I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.
From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.