Get Organized: Rearranging My Closet

After I read the directions to this blog, I immediately felt a bit intimidated. I am not the most organized, neat person. It seems a quality that has lacked from me, at least with physical things, is me being a perfectionist. I am not dirty by any means, but yes, my room will have a few clothes laying on the ground, my bed may have a papers and homework scattered on it, and my backpack may be completely disorganized. But, one thing in particular that has fallen especially victim to my lack of organization is my closet.

So you can imagine that once I read the blog prompt, I decided I would take on the task of organizing my closet; once and for all. It is something that needed to be done and was long overdue. Over time, it just got more and more messy, with clothes and such scattered on shelves and clothes that I have not worn in a while still hanging up on hangers, mixed in with my current wardrobe.

Before this task, as I said, I felt overwhelmed, and also a bit stressed. But, I knew that it was something I needed to do, not only to make my closet clean, but also for myself.

I began cleaning my closet and right away I felt better. Yes, I was doing work, but I was doing something so positive for myself. I actually was in a very good mood during the cleaning process, which is the complete opposite of how I thought I'd feel cleaning it. There wasn't really ever a time that I wanted to just quit and stop, or even take a break for that matter.

This is so much different that when I do homework. I am always trying to find excuses to take breaks and stop for a bit, because I am doing work that I have to try on. I found this interesting because this is the same for cleaning my closet, yet I just kept cleaning it, I wanted to.

After I had finished, I felt the biggest sense of accomplishment. I can see where all my clothes and shoes are now, and I have much more space since I got rid of the clothes I do not wear anymore. But my mind also felt cleaner, in a way. I now know that doing projects such as this one does not just benefit whatever I am cleaning or doing, it greatly benefits myself and my mind as well.

Best of Week: Myths

Going into the blog, I had planned on writing about the fractals video we had watched, or a discussion we had on the advancement of technology, something of that sort. But then I started to think back to the day we watched the video on the Starlings, and talked about myths.

To me, that was the best idea we talked about in class this week.

It really got me thinking, of how important myths were, and still are, to people. Also, how much they helped people to understand certain things and ideas. As stated in Sophie's World, myths were used to help people understand why thunder occurred. They were in a time where there was no way to figure out what was going on or what it was, so of course a myth would help.

In addition, we talked about the sense of creativity it adds, which I think many people seemed to overlook just a bit. When there is an interesting story behind why there are waves in the ocean or why skunks smell, it adds beauty to everything, possibly a beauty we did not originally see. Instead of just that scientific, most likely boring explanation, there's now this awesome reason.

Myths serve several purposes, and talking about it in class really helped me realize the important of them then and now.