an often overlooked area!
i also keep my room very clean and personalized in my own way
when you live with others of course you find your space and make it yours, it becomes your safety zone, your personal space to retreat to
my room is like my temple
i have very few things compared to others in similar situations - i have a bed, desk (with computer & speakers on top), two large speakers turned on their side used as desk sort of things where i have books, and that is it as far as space consuming objects goes
i have created a meditative space here very conducive to solitude and meditation ... everything including the colors of things, the lighting, and the organization of objects with the space in mind, has been included in my vision of how this personal temple should be
in fact, i miss my room a great deal when i am gone for too long, mostly because i am quite reclusive but also because i have not yet found a place i am more comfortable in
a few years ago ... totally different story, the room was just a pile of garbage that i literally had to find gaps in to step across the room ... cd's, books, everything all over the floor, no organization, no free space, just junk everywhere
i remember one day that i decided to clean some of it up, it took an entire day, no joke
these days when i do my cleaning it takes no more than 15 mins as i vacuum and reorganize books and such that had drifted around
in my opinion, or in my experience, a cluttered and messy room creates that feeling inside the mind, and a spacious room creates that feeling
i like to think that one can feel the peace as soon as they step in this room
i am also careful about who i allow in, as some people really have no grasp over subtle manners - for example, the other week my friend stopped by and we were hanging out here and he got pancake crumbs - yes pancake crumbs - on the carpet, apparently he stood on a pancake at someone else's house before coming here!
he treated it like it was no big deal, probably because his own room is a mess and he lives with that thought -
also, people bring their particular vibe with them, and sometimes it will clash with the spacious zen space i have here, or they might smoke marijuana and leave its insidious odor here in a cloud of smoke, disturbing the purity
the room is the womb, you know that fairly obvious insight that we're all just trying to get back in the womb, perfecting one's room is really just re-creating your own womb-space as much as you want it and in which way ... i think it's a fact we cannot avoid so we shouldn't try to escape it - in the womb-room there's safety, like an animal who has claimed a cave in a mountain for himself, and in the womb-room there's solitude and aloneness, where you can escape from the world
really, The Beach Boys immortalized the womb-room in their song "In My Room"
that song is relevant for every species on earth
