Getting Organized

I’m not a messy person. That being said, I’ve never had the best organizational skills. In elementary school, my desk overflowed with old assignments and it was no different in middle school or high school. Papers were shoved into my backpack with little regard or thought as to how I might find them later. This went on for years causing stress that no doubt could have been easily avoided. The trend was broken however, when i got my first computer. Organization had never been easier and I attribute this to the fact that everything about the computer is visual. Everything, all my files, photos, and drawings were laid out in front of me begging to be grouped into folders; named, dated, neatly placed folders, which were then backed up onto an external hard drive. My desktop was spotless with the exception of one folder titled “Jerry”. From there, I ran with it. I couldn’t have a clean computer on a cluttered desk and a cluttered desk in an unkempt room and so forth. For the first time in my life, I actually enjoyed cleaning. My newfound appreciation for organization was for the most part, brought forth by the digital world and transferred seamlessly into the real world.