Friday, May 8, 2009

Operation Organize

Last week, the week commemorating my birth, I sat down and made myself a list. A list of fifty-two things that I plan to accomplish in my twentieth year of life. Fifty-two things that I plan to accomplish and keep you appraised of weekly.
This week's plan coordinated perfectly with the events of the week.
(Operation Organize my Life)

Life is too short to waste time digging around in your closet for the perfect top, or sifting through papers to find instructions for the next assignment. I've spent the last year fighting the evils of disorganization, so this week I decided to play hero and rescue myself from the clutter.
Moving home, which is what happened at the close of the preceding week, allowed the perfect opportunity for operation organization.
I found that there is a universal truth behind the mess we all constantly battle against:

Universal Truth Number Seventeen
Entropy (yeah, yeah. I know I didn't actually discover this one)
For those of you who aren't familiar with the second law of thermodynamics, or entropy, it essentially states that all systems move to their most disordered or chaotic states.

That's right, it's not my fault when finals consume my every waking moment and make it impossible to clean my messy room. Blame entropy. It's a LAW of NATURE.
Really, my realization was this: messes are worth fighting against, but not worth stressing over.