It isn’t easy living a messy life; walking into your room and dodging articles of clothing, papers, notebooks, textbooks, and various wrappers and bowls and foods—it isn’t exactly what someone would call the life. And while I know this, I’ve always found myself inhabiting a disheveled room. Be it at my house, in my dorm, in my high school locker, locker room—anywhere; I’ve always had a messy living space.
To add to the misfortune of being a messy person, this habit isn’t perceived positively by the majority of folks. Some people seem to attribute messy living styles with carelessness, stupidity, dirtiness, et cetera. And while I can kind of see where they’re coming from on some of these (kind of), I can’t help but wonder why I don’t fit these descriptions. Now, I’m not very vain, but I can proudly say that I’m very careful, very clean, and decently intelligent, so when I see people linking a dirty room to a dirty person, I just don’t get the connection.
The thing about it is that people living in messy rooms aren’t necessarily content with it. And even if they are, who cares? This very question leads into a larger idea of people judging others without actually having information on them, but we aren’t going to get that deep here, as this is just an article about messy rooms. Fact is there are tons of reasons as to why someone with a messy room lives as such. One reason could be that they are busy. Being in college, I’m often very tired from classes and studies, and I’d rather spend any additional time I have with friends. I don’t have much time for cleaning. On top of that, after class gets out it’s so nice to just sit in a seat, throw your bag on the floor along with any pencils and/ or notebooks you may be holding and just forget about all of your worries. This leads to both peace of mind and a dirty floor.
Still, though, there is no objective way of which it is best to keep your room. If you spend loads of time cleaning, you don't have as much time for other things. Conversely, if you spend your time doing other things, your room will be messy. Finding a happy balance is cool and all, but not everyone cares about having balance, as it's easier to do what you like than to trying to do half of what you like to do and half of what you don't like to do. What I'm trying to say is: whether or not someone has a clean room says nothing about them. Okay, it might say a few things, but those things should not affect the way you think of them as a person.
So, to wrap up this short, spontaneous rant on living in a messy room, let me quote for you of one thing:
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” -Albert Einstein
