Ok, I’m messy...really messy. I never had a clean room as a kid, and as an adult my apartment looks like God let it rain dresses and shoes inside. But this is the way I like it, I know where everything is and it takes me 2 seconds to get it.
I was dating a guy that was a clean-freak, the fact that he liked everything orderly didn’t bother me, so I’m not sure why the fact I like things messy bothered him so much. It was like he couldn’t leave stuff alone. I left him in my living room while I was getting something out of the closet, only to come back to see him Windexing my table, the tv and my computer. I asked him what he was doing and he said “it’s more fun when everything is clean”. I just sort of stared at him, this kept happening, he would pick stuff up and move stuff around.
Here’s my problem, I didn’t go to his house and start throwing stuff on the floor because that's how I like it. He kept his place the way he liked it and I keep mine the way I like it. For some reason though neat and organized people feel the need to try to get you over to their side, kind of like a cult.
My favourite people are the closeted messy people that pretend to be neat and organized. I dated one of those too. The first time I went to his place the apartment was so clean it didn’t look lived in (I was slightly worried he was a sociopath to be honest, my friend even got me a checklist of other signs to look for). This carried on as we dated; his apartment was always freakishly spotless. Then my favourite day came! I stopped by on short notice to drop something off and he was really hesitant to let me in, once I walked in I saw why. Mess! Everywhere! I’m talking clothes all over the floor, a random old Nintendo on the stairs with accompanying games, dishes everywhere. I think I fell in love with him a little bit that day, it showed me he wasn’t perfect, which is exactly what I needed.
Being messy is part of who I am, I've been this way my whole life, I certainly don’t plan on changing now (but I bet if I marry a clean-freak he’ll hire a maid to keep up with me).
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