I've been meditating on this subject. I think I can trace the problem to my late childhood. My mother got sick from cancer when I was 10 and didn't get on me to clean my room. When she died I was 14 and really lacked the parental guidance needed to develop certain organizational habits.
Over the years I can say with certainty that my lack of organization and my general messiness has affected personal relationships in a very bad way. There were relationships that I wanted to keep -that just went away. Thinking back, there were a number of factors that caused the breakups... one of them was my general disorderliness.
I am changing. It is a slow, steady process but I am changing.
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