Finding the Beauty in an Organized Home
A chaotic home can lead to a disorderly mind. If your spaces are filled with teeming mounds of useless frivolity, it’s going to be difficult to find peace. Organization is the art of segmenting your possessions, displaying those which create an attractive atmosphere, and then sorting, categorizing, and storing everything else, in such a way that you will be able to find it whenever you need it. It’s an act which can turn a chaotic mess, into a serene, and peaceful space, which will automatically relax you and cause your thoughts to be more logical, ordered, and at peace.
There are a lot of people who scoff at the idea of decorative organization. Self professed “slobs” these people don’t bother themselves with the effort of sorting, or categorizing their possessions. Instead they prefer to stuff everything in a box, shove it in a corner, or leave it in little chaotic mounds of mish-mosh.
While it’s not inherently immoral to be disorganized, it is detrimental to your ability to succeed in the real world. Living amongst chaos will reflect in the way you interact with people on a social and professional level. It’ll be easier to forget important events, to let things slip through the cracks, and to get things mixed up. Chaos will creep into every aspect of your world, leaving your life an unpredictable ruin of confusion and clutter.
On the other hand, imagine the alternative. Straight lines, neat rows, everything at your fingertips quickly and easily. You will look around you, and know what everything is, where everything is. You’ll be able to reach out and grab any notebook, any kitchen appliance, old beverage coasters, lightly used clothing; it will all be available to you, because you actually know where it is. The space itself will feel less crowded, less claustrophobic, with more room to stretch out and actually enjoy your home. Organization is more than just a decorative tenant; it’s a way of life, one which can make everything from complex tasks, to day to day chores, easier and simpler.
Part of the beauty that is inherent in organization is the idea of design. If you take a bunch of sticks and drop them at random on the floor, it will make a mess. But if you carefully place each of those sticks in a place that means something, a place where it will be a part of a greater whole, then that big messy pile, can instead be a work of art. Chaos denotes randomness, whereas organization denotes a plan, a purpose for everything, whether it is functional, or decorative. In this way a clean, strict, sorted home will be inherently more attractive then one plagued by clutter.
These properties mean that an organized home will not only look like its being cared for, but will also have less of the claustrophobic feeling that a disorderly space will. Even if you have the same amount of possessions, organizing them into some sort of pattern will instantly create the feeling of there being more room inside of your home. This is partially an illusion, but it is also an effect of the fact that you are organizing not only the items themselves, but the empty places in between them as well. This allows you to create rows, walk ways, and clearings within the home, places of nothingness where you will be free to live.
Organization is a part of design. It is the act of taking your possessions, and actually choosing where they go rather than just letting random chance determine it. This can lead to cleaner, more open spaces, as well as a sense of logic that will carry through to the rest of your life.
