My Too (Many) Cents

Cleaning our room is something which we all know we should be doing but keep skimping out on. Recently, I cleaned out my room and my books and I had a unique insight which I thought was worth sharing (Yes, my blog is pretty random). So, how does a room or an office space or a toilet or anything get dirty? It happens with the passage of time, when you do not know the specified place to put something or when you skimp out on keeping it where you know you should. However, that which is not kept in order continues to remain where it has been put. Each time you leave your room, you are reminded of the fact that you decided to hang up your jeans right there instead of folding them and putting them back in your wardrobe or something along those lines. Over time, the pile of clothes reminding you of your laziness or your disorder keeps growing until it becomes unbearable to look at, so you either clean it all up with humility or start littering another part.  This I think, is exactly the mecha

 As someone who just recently finished school, the phrase "someone is working really hard" is something that has been thrown around a lot for students, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that hard work or to be more precise, self-flagellating effort is pretty worthless and is in fact indicative of some deep rooted problems which need to be resolved. Now, just saying this probably has some alarm bells ringing for you, since as a society we romanticize such activity a lot, but once I explain my points I think you would have a better understanding of what I mean.  The Stories we Tell ourselves Our personality and our social interactions are mostly made up of stories; stories we tell each other and stories we tell ourselves. The fact that stories are convenient fictions created to derive meaning from objective reality does not deter them from having profound effects on that same objective reality; Money for example, is a story that we tell ourselves, but a huge pro