“The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no traveller returns…” This is how original bearded hipster William Shakespeare described, essentially, death in back-in-the-day blockbuster Hamlet.
And as apt as that may be, I also find it works equally well when one takes their first steps into the previously undiscovered country of D.I.Y. After all, nobody ever truly knows what to expect from themselves and, once you’ve made that journey to ‘the other side’, the monetary and emotional investment in tools and a place to keep them that you’ve made means that you’re now dwelling in the domain of home improvement for good.
