Messy
Recently was reading a magazine and came to know about a Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming, yes the one who discovered Penicillin. He discovered penicillin, when samples he had carelessly left exposed in his mess of an office were contaminated while he was on vacation. For some people, a certain amount of messiness can be beneficial. So is being messy really so bad?
In general society isn’t kind to messy people. Parents punish children who won’t clean their rooms, and your boss might question your competence if you have a messy desk, until his desk is like that. Most messy people can locate what they need fairly quickly they just look where they last had put the item and go on from there. When a mess has been cleaned, it often takes much longer to remember where the item has been stored or much worse you even forget where you have put that thing. This thing happens with me a lot, at times I do some maintenance work in my room and I put all things in order but when my mom comes and asks me for the decoration papers that we stored last time….and I am blank, I do not even have a clue where I have placed it and possibly I will find it when I am searching for something else.
What does a neat and tidy home actually do for you? For sure it will not make you more productive; all the hours spent cleaning won’t save you much, if any, time finding things later. It will not make you healthier—if anything, exposure to the cleaning chemicals and cleaners happens to be worse for our health than living in a cluttered home, unless the mess is extreme and dust and mold accumulate. Finally, a tidy home probably will not make you happier— perhaps you feel better when your house is neat, but if your family does not share this passion for spotlessness, your demands for cleanliness are likely to lead to arguments and unhappiness.
Now as a solution I cannot pin point one for you but will suggest that, don’t try to keep the home spotless all the time. Let the mess build, allow certain sections of the house to be messy and clear them up every few weeks or when guests are coming or when you are getting ready for festivals. Neat people tend to equate messy with inefficiency, but for a naturally messy person, a messy desk might be the most efficient arrangement. Also disorganized people usually are better at rolling with the punches and seizing unexpected opportunities.
In general society isn’t kind to messy people. Parents punish children who won’t clean their rooms, and your boss might question your competence if you have a messy desk, until his desk is like that. Most messy people can locate what they need fairly quickly they just look where they last had put the item and go on from there. When a mess has been cleaned, it often takes much longer to remember where the item has been stored or much worse you even forget where you have put that thing. This thing happens with me a lot, at times I do some maintenance work in my room and I put all things in order but when my mom comes and asks me for the decoration papers that we stored last time….and I am blank, I do not even have a clue where I have placed it and possibly I will find it when I am searching for something else.
What does a neat and tidy home actually do for you? For sure it will not make you more productive; all the hours spent cleaning won’t save you much, if any, time finding things later. It will not make you healthier—if anything, exposure to the cleaning chemicals and cleaners happens to be worse for our health than living in a cluttered home, unless the mess is extreme and dust and mold accumulate. Finally, a tidy home probably will not make you happier— perhaps you feel better when your house is neat, but if your family does not share this passion for spotlessness, your demands for cleanliness are likely to lead to arguments and unhappiness.
Now as a solution I cannot pin point one for you but will suggest that, don’t try to keep the home spotless all the time. Let the mess build, allow certain sections of the house to be messy and clear them up every few weeks or when guests are coming or when you are getting ready for festivals. Neat people tend to equate messy with inefficiency, but for a naturally messy person, a messy desk might be the most efficient arrangement. Also disorganized people usually are better at rolling with the punches and seizing unexpected opportunities.
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