How cleaning your room will help fight entropy

I bet we've all heard this or something similar from our mothers, "Clean your room or you can't go out with your friends" or "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."  While the efforts of our mothers may have had varying degrees of effect upon all of us, the efforts of my mother didn't really strike a chord with me while I was still living at home.  Now, however, that I am living alone, I feel the need to exert some control over my life (and room).  So here I have imagined a real reason why my room should be clean.  It has to do with entropy. (Sorry to any erudite of thermodynamics that I may annoy with my poor description of said subject)

Entropy, as we all know, is a measure of the state of disorder or decay of a system.  All systems (including my room) tend to lose order and progress towards a state of entropy or disorder.  I feel that one of the greatest purposes of the human race is to be a force of order in the world, and not just let everything happen and continue to disorganize.

When we clean our rooms, we are exerting self control and our personal power upon our personal space.  I think that when we can begin to exert this control in one aspect of our lives, it will continue to other aspects as well.  When we control our personal space, we can control better our thoughts, our words, and our actions because once we do exercise control we can better apply the same principle and energy to other areas.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that we be control freaks.  We have to understand the purpose behind entropic states and be able to use entropy to our advantage (e.g. Chaos is really good for sparking ideas,) but we should not just let our room decay.

Some might say, "but when I don't clean my room I am exercising power, the power to go against what my parents say, because it's one of the few freedoms I've managed to wrest from my parents"  That's all very well and good, but when it comes time to leave the house you're not limited to that small area of control of your life, and not cleaning your room just becomes laziness, i.e. giving in to entropy.

So let us join the good fight against entropy by cleaning our rooms and helping others to do the same.

So to start off I want to start writing about the post apocalyptic genre.  It's a genre I enjoy, from videogame series like Fallout, Left 4 Dead, and Half Life to movies like I am Legend, World War Z, and Oblivion and let's not forget about books like The Hunger Games and the Shanarra series.  There just seems to be something intriguing about what would happen after all that we know ceases to exist.  Most of these titles seem to have a central theme of human ingenuity, and the ability to survive and persevere against all odds.

Of course, analyzing my recent media selections I question what it is about myself that gives rise to the desire to escape into a post apocalyptic world.  Not that it's just recent media selections that show I want to escape, that's been on my agenda since I started reading books in first grade.  This pondering was initiated by the movie I saw tonight, Oblivion.  When I watch movies or read books like that, I feel a yearning, a desire to take part in the action.  I want to participate.  Another thought I had was that Oblivion would make a great Videogame, or at least the world would.

Is my life so unbearable that I would rather live in a world where a giant computer/zombie apocalypse/ nuclear war has destroyed civilization as we know it?  Do I see civilization as broken, worth destroying?  Impossible to fix?  My life, as seen from an unbiased perspective would probably not seem so bad.  I'm a college student, my tuition, room and board is almost completely paid for,  I'm healthy, handsome (Okay I might be biased about that one, but that's what my Mom tells me), strong.  Of course I'm also an introvert, someone who likes being around people but fears participating in conversation.  I'm also fairly oblivious to a lot of things that other people seem to understand so easily.

I suppose that my real problem is that I feel like I haven't lived up to the standards that I have set for myself, standards which I feel are reasonable and not perfectionistic.  That, I believe is the real root of the problem. GENERALIZATION ALERT: When people don't live up to their personal standards, they feel like crap.  That's what's going on in my life.  I want to escape because I don't want to continue this "game".  I want to reload from a previous saved game.  I want to play a different game.  So I turn to escapism.

Anyway, that's that for today.