Sage

I, too, used to feel very Zen when cleaning. However, it's also very easy to fall into thinking of cleaning as a way to escape from the things you really need to deal with- the things in your life that aren't as easy to put into order. Do you clean at the expense of other activities? Could you eat soup off of your carpet- it's that clean?

I ask because I used to be absloutely FRANTIC about cleaning because it was the one thing in my life I had absloute control over. I had issues dealing with things in my life I couldn't control 100%, so I cleaned in order to compensate. Now that I have dealt with my control issues, I don't clean as much- but I do still enjoy things being clean.

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