According to an article I just read, “Saying Yes to Mess - New York Times”. It’s actually healthy to be messy.

Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapes”) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts.

Stop feeling bad about your mess, you got more important things to worry about. At least, that’s my excuse. I honestly don’t pay attention to the mess on my desk because I’m so occupied with other thoughts that cleaning is at the bottom of my list. It’s simply a waste of time to me, I don’t want to waste time.

Stop feeling bad, say the mess apologists. There are more urgent things to worry about. Irwin Kula is a rabbi based in Manhattan and author of “Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life,” which was published by Hyperion in September. “Order can be profane and life-diminishing,” he said the other day. “It’s a flippant remark, but if you’ve never had a messy kitchen, you’ve probably never had a home-cooked meal. Real life is very messy, but we need to have models about how that messiness works.”

I’m definitely not saying it’s good to act like a pig, that’s just rude and unhealthy. But I agree with the articles point of just not worrying so much about being messy. There are more important things to do with life.

I say clean when you are having a bad day, a depressing day, or just a whacked out day. Why? Well those are days when you wouldn’t have anything better to do anyway.

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