Still on it!

My room tends to be a mess. I'll clean it, and with the best of intentions one day I'll be in a rush, and I'll leave something on the floor, leave a glass on a shelf or my dresser and the slide down the slope is begun. Clutter will take over and the next thing you know, I'm up to my eyes. Despite the mess, I tend to be organized, but that's slipping more and more now. When I was in seventh grade, it was so bad that literally, I only had a clear path from my door to my closet and bed. The rest was piles of papers and books up to my waist. My mother told me to clean my room (big surprise) but she said that I couldn't find anything in there. I told her I knew where everything was and asked her what she wanted- she chose my third English test of the year. So, I began moving the piles maybe four of them, and dug two thirds of the way down one and within three pages, I had the test. Unsurprisingly, my mother was not amused, and reiterated her demand.

I'm an adult now, and my room has never been that stacked up again, but it's been plenty messy. I cleaned it in January, completely finished on the 12th, and drumroll, please... IT'S STILL CLEAN!!!!! I don't remember the last time my room stayed clean for this long. I even made my bed this morning and opened the window blinds. My room is a much nicer place to be now. It feels so good to walk into my room, it's a place to hang out in comfort, it makes me happy. I sleep better and have a better outlook on my life when my room is clean- that's always been true, and it's so nice to be in this place!