On a media article and two jokes
From The Irish Times article on the issue of domestic clutter (beginning and end):
” Do you have a floordrobe? Drawers of old birthday cards? Cupboards filled with your preschooler’s artwork? After two years of being mostly at home, our houses are chock-a-block. ‘Our internal world is a mirror of our external world. If chaos has built up around your home, your head is in the same disarray,’ says Vera Keohane of @enjoy_your_home_. It might be time for the mother of all declutters.
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The method is about experiencing more calm by living with less. ‘The more possessions we have, the more occupied we are,’ says Keohane. ‘We fall out of love with home when it’s in a state. The calm that comes over you when all this excess is gone is profoundly life-changing.’”
This article appealed to me because I have usually had trouble with disorganization (my Dad nearly had a heart attack yelling at me when I was a teenager because my bedroom was so messy, and I do currently have a “floordrobe” but partly because a chest of drawers did not assemble properly). At least the clothes are usually clean.
But seriously, I think keeping a clean and relatively spare home is good for mental health. Doing so is a kind of job, even though you are not being paid for it.
A joke, a bit inappropriate. This one actually goes back to my youth.
“I’m of two minds about the schizophrenia diagnosis the doctor gave me.”
Another joke:
“Was considering adopting ‘woke’ ideology very early this morning but went back to sleep.”