Room Clearing

Clearing my room from the aftermath of a semester of study makes me think of a game of musical chairs. No kidding. It really does. Now, the early stages of cleaning up are really more like a massacre. One moment there's a lot of stuff everywhere. Later on, it all just...disappears.

Then comes the hard part. After tossing out and/or rearranging everything, there remains the question of what can be done about the stuff that's not meant to be thrown away. The question seems easy enough, until one realizes that all the drawers, bookshelves and other containers are full as well.

Of course, this is really an exercise in irrationality. Obviously, if something's been left alone for long enough that they're forgotten and left in a drawer for ages, they're not terribly important. Aside from important documents in archive, of course. If that's the case, it's really a no brainer about what should be tossed. Then there's the case of the Too Cool To Toss syndrome.

TCTT is something any RPG'er will be familiar with. Suddenly the inventory's full of really cool stuff that the player can't bear to part with, then another cool item pops up. It seems that something's gona out-cool something else. Hence musical chairs. Toss the less cool item out to make way for the cooler one.

And the cycle continues with every storage space in the room. That's where the real irrationality comes in. Shouldn't most storage spaces be devoid of anything but truly archive quality stuff? Well, I guess ultimately it's a case of deferred decision making. I'll just decide on all that stuff at my next spring cleaning =p