Get Organized : Cleaning My Room

Now due to the upcoming holiday, I decided my room needed to be cleaned in case any family members were going to be staying in my room. Honestly, my room was a mess. I share it with my younger brother Giovanni, and our clothes were everywhere. On the floor, not hung up correctly in our closets, under the bed even! Honestly it looked like the stereotypical statement from a mom, "It looks like a tornado came through here!". So, it was time to clean it up.


Of course, starting the job of cleaning is painful and obnoxious. Just thinking about the big mess that awaited me was making me want to cry! But, nevertheless I had to get it done. During the process though, I felt at times angry because it was just so messy I couldn't believe it. But then I would look at the progress and feel much better. It was something short of an esteem booster.

Then towards the end, I felt great! My room looked great! Almost spotless! Which is absolutely fine for me. I don't need my room to pass a white glove inspection in order for me to feel satisfied. I thought I did a great job and thanks to my mom, she made the bathroom look brand new! In a dramatic way, it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. All the clutter was crazy and effecting my sleep because I was actually too lazy to put my crap away. 

Honestly, now that my room is clean I feel my brain to be less clustered and jumbled. I know that the organization of every aspect of my life effects anything else in any other place too. It feels great. Now I know where all of my favorite shirts are, and where all my sweatshirts are and it honestly is a great feeling. My mind now feels...to some extent, free. In a small way, I feel like now I can think more openly and freely. It's a great feeling that I know I get whenever my room is clean. It's just the process to keep it clean.

I didn't learn anything new from this project. I always knew that it's easy to keep my room clean, it's not hard to clean it, and that I feel better afterwards. But to me, it's still a pain in my butt to take and extra five minutes to put my clothes in the proper place, whether it be the hamper or closet. It's just so much easier to be a lazy bum and throw all of it on the floor. But I do know that I need to fight that lack of motivation. Unfortunately, it is in all parts of my life. And it has been for a while but I know I have to fight it. I just need to stand up and face it, and avoid it as well. 

Connection: My dads' life and Aesthetics

Every day my dad tells my younger brother and I to live by the rules of happiness and follow your dreams
and to enjoy every second of your life because you never know when it will end. I feel like my dad would strongly believe in aesthetics and to live by its' rules. I know that aesthetics is 'rules and structures for creating absolute beauty" so I definitely know my dad follows these ideas. He knows that besides for all the ugly of the world, there is way more beauty in it than most see. He wants us to go to the forest preserves in every season, more than once to see the beauty and change that is on this planet. He never wants us to lose the ideas of beauty that we have of the world and how we can use it to our every day advantage. Bring these ideas into the rest of our lives and continue seeing the true beauty of things even in difficult situations that may come about.

Due to my past, I have been 'blinded' by darkness and unable to see the beauty and happiness that engulfs us everyday. With this class, and my family, I am trying my hardest to think and see all the beauty that I should be seeing everywhere. I'm not saying I don't find the fall colors to be beautiful or a sunrise. But I cannot see it in everything. I know that my younger brother has problems seeing full beauty too but he is still young. My dad and aesthetics have beliefs of the same kind and are able to use them everyday of his life. And portray them even onto others' lives.  I find it to be an important matter to accept it in our own lives and then bring it onto our important friends's lives too.

Best of Today: Common Sense and Platonic Thinking

In class today, along with what happened yesterday, we came across the subject of common 
sense and to what extent are certain issues actually common sense. Like it IS common sense to know not to touch a hot pan on the stove. I feel like it is also common sense not to ask a stranger or someone that you aren't close with, who they voted for or what their salary is.
I feel like if someone is lacking common sense, it's more towards the sense part rather than the 'common' i guess. 

One of my best friends has NO common sense but she is very thoughtful and understands right from wrong. She just, at the time, doesn't think much of the 'sense'. In class, Mr. Allen talked about how there is two parts of common sense like the sense part and the other part, which I have never really thought about before. I just felt like since it's 'common' then everyone should have it, although I knew a lot of people didn't/don't.

Also, today we were talking about the ideas and beliefs of Plato and Darwin, and how they would intertwine. And I don't know much about Plato and his beliefs, but what I found out today was actually really cool. Plato feels as if we, now are the shadows of the realm above us. We are not the reality, but what is above us with all the ideals and materials, they are reality. Just even typing it seems strange to me to think the possibility of it. But what I can't seem to wrap my head around is the thought of afterlife. I'm not religious and I can't even begin to comprehend the thoughts of an 'afterlife'. 

I now have the tools to look forward and think more about this. I now want to look into religions of all types just to learn more about them. Give me more knowledge about religions that I have either never heard of or, know little about. Opening of new doors for my life in experiences.