It’s a pity! Think I have become a stickler for cleanliness or something. To my sheer disbelief, found myself cleaning up the mess that my little sister had created at 1 30 am at night on my birth day!
I cannot help but feel bad for perfectionists. Imagine the kind of stress it causes you when you see a pencil that’s fallen out of the stand or that crease that you spot on the bed sheet when it’s not supposed to be there…
Freak! There was a time, not very long time back, when I would take pride in sleeping amidst a mound of clothes. The ideal single’s life. Alone, independent, dirty house that I would clean once in two weeks, clothes that could remain unwashed till I exhausted all of them once and there was nothing fresh left to wear and utensils that remained in the sink at the mercy of my mood to wash them.
Yuck?! I know. But the objective to tell all this is not to highlight how disgustingly unkempt I was but to recall how happy I was. How much at ease I was with myself and the world around me!!
And now!! Just see what has become of me. I tend to get acidic at the thought of entering a house which has not been cleaned. Once upon a time I could never understand why women freaked out if there maids did not come on time. Today, my mind whirrs at the speed of lightning, a million heart attacks a moment, biting my nails in anticipation every morning whether my maid will ring the bell at 6 am this morning!
To this day, my only sense of solace remains that my perfectionism has only remained restricted to cleanliness at home and has some how not trickled down to my professional life!
Thank God for small mercies! :)
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Nice post :). I bet you can't top this. After I came back from the New Jersey trip, I put my bag in the living room, thinking I will put my stuff in the closet after some time. This was three weeks back. That bag is still in the living room :P . I just pick up whatever I want to wear and throw it back in :P . Incidentally, this happened when my roommate is on a 2 month vacation :P . Waiting for him to come back as that will be the day (probably) the bag goes back to my room :P.
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