However disgusting a person's habits may be, every now and then he or she does feel the obligation to clean up and organise his or her surroundings. For a change, not to trip over boxes or books lying on the floor, not to have a landslide after opening a cupboard, and not to sit on clothes that should be in the laundry.
My gift to myself on an unfortunate Tuesday evening was to clean up my room- and I realised how much inconvenience cleanliness actually causes. A mess is a very personalised thing- a mess is not a mess, it is like a resume- it speaks about you, who you are and what you have been doing. A mess is a beautiful thing that has evolved because of your unique personality and your way of living life. Therefore, a mess is actually the most ideal and convenient thing in your room. Things are not where they should be, things are where you want them to be, and this keeps life running smoothly.
Case in point- try searching for something before you clean you room and after. It takes less time to find something when things are in a mess, because your instinct guides you to where it is. When things are organised, you are in an unknown environment, and a search is a lost cause. True, with a mess there is a chance that you might actually lose something forever- just take it as a sign that it was never meant to exist in your life anyway. I was looking for scratch paper about ten minutes after "cleaning up", and I actually had to walk over to the other room to get paper. In my natural state, there would have been plenty of scratch lying on desk.
Moral of the story: never mess with a mess.
