Spring Cleaning is a process we all go through, maybe more than once every year.
There are many little tasks to complete within your own space, each having its own little sequence.
1. The Motivation
There are so many things you have to do and cleaning seems like the most plausible thing to do, instead of doing your homework. You sit around pondering your list of things to do and consider all the things that are important and the things that you just want to do.
You open your laptop to start an assignment but WAIT. Netflix pops up with the episode you haven’t finished yet. “Just 20 more minutes! I’ll do my homework after this episode,” you tell yourself. Two hours and four episodes later, you realize you need to get your stuff done, but your room is so dirty! You realize that you’ll focus better with a clean room.
2. The Exorcism Of Clothes
As you begin to clean your room, you start picking up your clothes and separating clean from dirty, putting each item back where it goes, but you have too much stuff. Your only solution is to start going through every article of clothing and shoes that you own and making the “GoodWill Bag.”
This ends up taking close to an hour and a half, but you feel accomplished. You then realize your room is still a flipping mess and move to the counter spaces.
3. The Discovery
As you begin to unravel the layers of your life, you discover the gum you thought you threw away, the homework assignment you lost, the other shoe you thought your friend borrowed, and that single dollar bill that makes your day.
You begin to go further and further back into the depths of your life through your recent discoveries of hidden treasures and this creates a chain reaction in your head.
4. The Questioning
All of this self-reflection is now causing you to question everything about yourself and what you are doing with your life.
You decide you want to change majors, change the theme of your room, be a better student, and somehow decide that you want to go on a diet. The homework you lost you try to turn in for late-late credit and you call your parents and brag about how organized and together you are.
5. The Revival
This motivation lasts for about three days to a week and soon your room is messy again. Get excited to do it all over again! This is called Spring Cleaning.
Don’t feel like you are alone in the frazzling process of cleaning your room, it has been dreaded since we were all little.
We all fear the words “Go clean your room!”
Take your time! The monster under your bed was looking for a new home anyway.
