I've noticed that when you go to people's houses, they often apologise for their lack of cleanliness which is especially humorous when you know how messy I am. Now, I'm not criticizing their apologies. I just want to analyze why there is so much shame associated with being messy. Why is cleanliness next to godliness? What is inherently good about it?
I think there're three legitimate reasons for cleanliness:
1) Efficiency - It's a lot easier to find stuff when it's organized. However, I have heard that super-organized people are sometimes less efficient because they're spending all their time making sure their stapler is parallel to their pencil holder
2) Courtesy - You don't want people to feel like they're going to trip or get a disease if they come into your house
3) Personal Comfort - For some people, messiness is like a constant drip. You've got to stop it or you'll go crazy!!!!
So if none of these are an issue, why should people judge you as being irresponsible or lazy because you haven't tidied up? Why should you feel guilty? I'm not saying you shouldn't clean, but I'm just curious about cleanliness from a sociological standpoints. Any insights, especially from you clean folk (you know who you are), are welcome.
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I say that when someone comes over and there are hundreds of dead ladybugs on my floor because I'm too lazy to get the vacuum cleaner out after a week of killing those pests.
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