I recently got my own room since my older brother moved out
and I have been procrastinating this huge “project” my mother likes to call it
for a few weeks now. Every week I write
out a schedule that I will do every day starting from one side of the room to
the other but I continuously would say “I’ll just do that tomorrow,” and I
never would do anything.
Then when I read this prompt I knew it was the perfect opportunity
for me to, HAVE to get it done. At the
beginning I felt very motivated because I felt confident I could get it all
clean with in a maximum of 45 minutes.
As I started moving
things from boxes and piles I was feeling a rush of happiness due to many memories
flowing out of the boxes. A lot of my
old things had been in boxes because I previously was sharing a room with my
sister until my brother moved out. Some of the things I found in the boxes were
soccer photos, old jerseys, and trophies. The most memorable thing I found was
a misplaced box my mom must have put in my room by accident. In this box there
was a lot of lose old pictures and an album that contained memories of my
family that lives in Mexico.
Before I knew it I had been cleaning and organizing my room
for an hour and a half. I was suddenly so tired and bored of doing this for too
long. I felt like calling it a day but I was still far from done, as I
proceeded I let the flashes of my memories distract me from the thoughts of
what I could be doing instead of this project, for example playing soccer with
my friends. Before I knew it I noticed myself going in circles around my room searching
for more boxes to be piled up but instead they were all lying empty outside of
my room.
After finally being done I felt a huge sense of relief. My
mom was extremely happy and so was I. My mind was changed about the thought of
cleaning and organizing after this project because this is the first time doing
this; that it became something more personal than just a chore. I now will let
this become more of a habit in my life because you never know what you may
find.
One thing I really noticed the most after this project was
how much more I remember about my childhood than I thought I knew. Some of the
memories were things I had never remembered before this project ended up as a
delightful and enlightening experience.
