Does the person who dies with the neatest room win?

[firecat]

Balancing is so difficult sometimes. So is feeling that I should be perfectly in balance all the time, that swaying temporarily X degrees in this or that direction.

And while I'm on what's difficult, another thing that's difficult to manage is my tendency to take on a project and then drop it and take up another project.

The projects currently sitting around my room in various states of undoneness:

• installing various hardware, programs, and music CDs onto my computer
• getting a new band for my watch
• filing / weeding papers
• opening the mail from the last 2 weeks
• taping CDs for use in my car
• putting away my clean laundry
• clearing horizontal surfaces for work and craft use
• setting up the synthesizer
• getting a bookshelf to put the books in the laundry basket on
• cleaning off the hard disk of my old computer
• donating the box of stuff I no longer want

I am fortunate that I am interested in so many things and people and able to have so many things I want...but it does end up feeling at times like I am never going to catch up, and I'm going to be completely inundated with partially processed stuff.

Comments

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Sing it Seebling. I got those same "Will I ever catch up and feel balanced blues."

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

I managed to feel better about the half-finished projects once somehow...I can't remember, though.

Maybe something like, um, separating my self-judgement from what I had accomplished? Like "these things are here for me, not me for them, and I can come and go from them as I please"? And when they get done, I feel good, but don't worry too much about the things that aren't done?

Or something. Gotta go! I have about a week's worth of chores to finish today!

[firecat]

these things are here for me, not me for them

That's good. Yeah, I've felt that way on occasion. Should add it to my "arguing back at myself" arsenal.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

[lenniersd.livejournal.com]

So what happens when everything is fully processed? Isn't life, by definition, the accumulation of unfinished, unprocessed, projects and situations?

Yeah, but do they have to be so MESSY?

[firecat]

Hmm, I would say that's the definition of entropy, but it certain has applicability to life. :-)

Does the person who dies with the neatest room win?

[leandra333.livejournal.com]

...Well if they do, I win! :-) Seriously, I've been a bit obsessed with the appearance of my bedroom these last few months. I've redecorated and kept it very tidy.

Don't go dying on me now...

[firecat]

I can keep one room at a time tidy (although you might find that hard to believe :-), I just can't manage all of them at once...