There was this little mental health bit that came on over the radio last night as I was driving home from my closing shift at work.
Where the dude was talking about different styles of cleaning that would help you overcome various issues in your life. Issues being like feeling melancholy, anxious, stressed, etc.
And those solutions were like "Do a deep clean if you feel this" or "Organize your room if you feel this" or "declutter if you feel this."
Though I don't remember which feeling went with which solution. It did kinda send a worm wiggling in the back of my mind.
As well...I've let things become a bit of a disaster for a while now.
Like I still had--have--stuff on my floor in my bedroom from last Christmas that I haven't put away sort of disaster.
And like...I've been in quite the....bleh mood for the past little while. Where I just....don't want to do anything. It's too much work. It's not worth it. Etc.
Hence why I haven't been blogging.
Or doing much really beyond going to work and then coming home and losing myself in worlds that other people have created. (aka I've been doing a ton of reading.)
But today....today I actually decided to 'do' something about the state of my room.
As, beyond the radio bit yesterday, I have been thinking for a while that I might feel better if I cleaned my room. Organized it a bit.
As I'm sure having a messy room hasn't really helped with my mental health that much. And I've been thinking for a good month now that I should actually make an effort to clean my room.
So I took time today, in between chapters of a story I'm reading, to do that.
Clean.
Like I did laundry. Organized and put away my hapazardly stacked sets of movies and books, did a bit of fish tank maintenance, actually made my bed. Put away the laundry instead of just tossing it on the floor. And did a bit of decluttering of my knick knacks as well. Mostly pulling a "does this spark joy?" mentality as I pulled things off the shelves and dusted them and if I still wanted to look at them I put them back and if I didn't I put them in a box.
And like...I knew it would help my overall attitude and such.
But still. It's amazing how more...idk perky? I felt. How much energy and just...simple happiness I've been feeling today having accomplished so many things.
Like...I still have some piles of stuff on the floor that I need to find a spot for, and need to declutter a couple more spots in my room. Maybe redecorate my room and switch out pictures I've had hanging up for a while.
But overall.
I feel much better. So much better.
I mean I'm writing a blog post after over a month of silence. So yah. Obviously feeling a lot better. ^^;; lol.
So yah.
Note to self.
Try and keep my room cleaner in the future. And hopefully the cleaner room will help my mental health in other areas of my life. Like in wanting to keep up with my blogs again and wanting to actually write my own stories again instead of losing myself in other peoples.
Guess we'll see.
But I am glad that I took the time to do a bit of cleaning today.
Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
