Get Organized: Task That Seemed Easy At First Sight
The exciting weekend that I've long been waiting for has finally arrived! The reason for this excitedness was due to the fact that I was going to finally meet and hang out with my 3 best friends from colleges. Before my wonderful weekend started, I've made a big promise that I will clean my room, ranging from clothes to paperworks, before I enjoy my weekend too much that I will forget about the commitment that I made to myself. At this moment, I didn't really think about all the processes and troubles that I will be soon facing. As a matter of fact, what I thought would be a 10 minute task cam out to be more than 30 minutes by the time I got done with the task.
As I was about to start the cleaning job, I've realized something that closely related to the idea of Aristotle. Even before I started to clean my room, every object in my room was categorized into certain categories depending on how it looks, what it is made of, and the way it is being used as. What was more surprising to me was that even though I didn't really think about the task beforehand, my mind has already been done categorizing the materials into certain categories that I believed the object will fall under.
After realizing the cool fact about my mind, I continued with my steps and went on to actually cleaning the room. As I was working, I came across very memorable and sad letters and gifts that I've received when I was leaving my friends behind in Korea to come to United States. It was definitely one of the most meaningful memory that I wouldn't forget in my lifetime. However, what was significant about this discovery was that I've learned an important idea from this. To be more specific, by categorizing and cleaning up the room from the mess, I've gained a chance to think back about my own past and was able to link it to the future. By doing this, it became much clear to me how the past has connection to present and I was able to see see more clearly into myself. In my opinion, this cleaning task that seemed simple was a time well spent.
Mark, as soon as I started reading the first sentence of your entry I was interested in what the rest was going to say. Your optimistic, casual tone really made this easy and enjoyable to read. What I thought was most interesting about what you said was how you posed the idea of how you can connect to the past while cleaning your room; I've never thought of this. I've never thought that something besides a final result of a clean room could come out of the process of organizing and cleaning. However, you taught me that instead of being frustrated and overwhelmed about cleaning and organizing, I can make the process of doing so much more enjoyable and relaxing by reflecting upon old stuff in my room while disposing of them.
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ReplyDeleteOverall, your blog entry was very interesting. I can really relate to when you said you thought cleaning your room would take 10 minutes but it ended up taking more than 30. I also really liked how you brought and related Aristotle to what you were doing. It was also very cool to see that you made a realization about your mind, how it can separate things into separate categories. It was also very interesting to read about how you found old letters from your friends in Korea. Those must of been really nice to find! Just by cleaning your room, you were brought back with many good memories. Awesome job!
-KimmyD