I’ll never forget the first time that I moved out on my own.
I had to face the old and difficult job of changing the HEPA air filter all by myself.
There was only one problem, no one ever showed me how to change the air filter. So I had no idea what I was doing, but I knew that the air filter was in the heat and cooling system, but that is all I knew how to do. It does not help that back in the day this was the pre-internet era, so I couldn’t just go on Google and locate how to change an air filter. I had to do what everyone back then would do when they couldn’t figure out how to do something; they called their parents or a friend. I called my mom and I asked her how to change my air filter and she explained the way that it worked. Apparently the way she learned how to change an air filter when she was young was when the heating and cooling worker showed it to her. She said that she had recently bought some air filters for her Heating and A/C unit but she had no idea how to change them either. But lucky for her, since she was right there at the heating and air conditioning business, there were nice heating and cooling workers that were kind enough to show her how to do it. She told me that once she first learned to do it, it was way easier than originally imagined in her head. Like me, she made it out to be some complicated process when in reality it wasn’t complicated at all. She showed me how to change the air filter of my Heating and A/C system and I had unlocked yet another life lesson.