Do you know those mornings when you can’t find anything to wear? This shirt doesn’t fit right with the pants you wore last week, and suddenly every piece of clothing feels wrong or not to your taste. Before you know it, your floor, bed, and closet are decorated with rejected outfits.
Then you come home from school, only to be greeted by the mess you started that morning. Between schoolwork and the need to chill out, your room is now littered with clothes, shoes, and your favorite shirts.
I do the exact same thing and have the same reaction every time I walk into my room.
How in the world did this mess get here?
The truth is, this is me almost every day, until the clothes start stacking on top of each other and turn into a full-blown clothing mountain. There are really two types of messy rooms, you’re either a food-messy person or a clothes-messy person, and sometimes, unfortunately, both.
I don’t think having a messy room is the end of the world, but my mom definitely does. She’ll nag me until it’s finally clean. The dirtiest my room has ever been was in middle school, when I wouldn’t clean it for weeks, sometimes even months. My closet looked like a disaster zone and it was my disaster zone.
It was as if a tornado had ripped through my room and never left. The only times I would clean were when company was coming over or when the mess reached a level of filth that even I couldn’t ignore anymore.
Sometimes, without realizing it, your room can change your mood. When my room is cluttered or messy, I feel a heavy sense of unmotivation, like even getting out of bed is too much. Some mornings I’ll stay in bed doing nothing, letting time pass until it’s late at night.
At the same time, the mess brings me a strange sense of comfort. When my room is messy, I know exactly where everything is. I know which shirt I threw down because I plan to wear it the next day, and I know my shoes are in the corner next to my mountain of clean laundry. To anyone else it may look like chaos, but to me, it makes sense.
In the end, a messy room isn’t just about clothes on the floor or cluttered corners. It’s a reflection of real life, where things don’t always stay organized and days don’t always go as planned. While cleaning may eventually need to happen, a messy room is sometimes just proof that you’re busy, human and trying your best.
