Cleaning

After endless remarks from people coming to our room, Amit and I cleaned up this weekend. Or actually we had help, but it sounds better to say that we did it. It is a bit easier to live without all the mess, but not that much. Perhaps Amit and I are just messy people, why fight it. I do agree that we can’t just let the room be, we don’t want a mouldy fermented rat and ant infested house, that wouldn’t be fair to the rest of our room either, I guess.

We are both not that found of cleaning so how do we come out spending as little time cleaning as possible? My thesis is that if we just clean up, let’s say once a month. We can spend a day or even half a day once a month will actually be less than the time we would spend cleaning up after ourselves. It is a waste of time going outside to the trash can all the time, sweeping up if you drop some cereal. I think quite a few people do live like this here. Just look at a thing like personal hygiene, i know numerous people, who shall remain anonymous, who does not shower as often as they would if they were back home. There can be many reasons for this, one is that we live so close together and we see each other so much that there is no reason to keep trying to uphold this “perfect” shell. Another reason can be that we found out since coming here that there are just more important stuff in the world than appearance. The third and to me most likely is that we live in India, there are a lot of smells, it is messy and it is hot as hell so you take a shower and you are still sweating when you come out. I actually do think that the most rational thing to do is just let the mess be and clean up when you’ve had enough. After all laws of nature, the second law of thermodynamics i think, goes something like this, that the entropy in a system tend to increase over time. In other words it is natural that your room is messy. We had help to clean our room, and that was great, but now we can’t find half our stuff. Before we knew exactly where everything was hiding in the mess. I think that brilliancy thrives in chaos, when you can see the order in the mess. It is a skill you need in life i think, especially in India. But everywhere i think the world is messy and our mind finds patterns and symmetry in it.