I can't help sending a photo of my desk every once in a while: in a few cases, there will be a comparison picture before and after finishing, waiting for my friends to praise me for my diligence and ability in the comments; Many times it is a mess, and there is no finished photo, because I don't have the confidence and ability to restore it to a clean state that can be used well, but adding filters to Meitu seems to make the situation a little less bad. This kind of self-deception is still useful to me. ...

Maybe you can't see the change after adding the filter.

But it's a little comfort to myself. ↓↓↓

On the one hand, sending such photos is self-deprecating, on the other hand, because every time a friend resonates: Oh, my desk is like this! My desk is a mess, too! It's okay. It can be fixed! It doesn't matter. We're ready!

As if I saw this resonance, the huge cold chicken I faced was immediately resolved, and I also had the strength to continue to complete the arduous task. When I tidy up my desk, I have the courage to face all kinds of tasks. I can turn on the computer to write a manuscript, or I can spread out the paper and play paper-cutting. Ah, a contemporary woman who gives consideration to both career and leisure! Although the table will return to chaos in a few days, how enjoyable the process is!

However, if you have experience in tidying up your desk, you will know that in the process of tidying up, you will temporarily move the things on your desk to the ground or some other plane next to it. Before everything is put away, the whole scene will make neat friends collapse. When I bought a few chests of drawers and wanted to make full use of the space under the desk, I found that the desk was already full of things, so I had to drag all the idle things out of the ground first, and the scene was even more frightening!

The actual situation is much more terrible than this photo. ...

How shocking is it?

On the first day, I piled all the messy things on the ground;

The next day, I want to start tidying up. As a result, I was dizzy as soon as I entered the study, and I didn't have the courage to stay long.

On the third day, I wanted to start tidying up, walked into the study, stood for a while, looked around, considered where to start tidying up, found the problem too difficult, silently quit and closed the door;

On the fourth day, when I was eating out, my friend laughed at me and said that the two-meter-long table couldn't even hold the mouse pad and asked me to work in the corner. After returning home, I took a few deep breaths and decided to turn over a new leaf. I looked at the research and decided that this decision will be implemented from tomorrow.

On the fifth day, my family began to urge me to clean up quickly, and I was aroused by rebellious psychology. Instead, laughing at her husband's desk is just as messy. Who am I to interrupt me?

On the sixth day, I didn't expect people to clean up his desk. I thought he would soon be able to spread out three monitors to do great things.

On the seventh day, I decided to tell the maid aunt that you should not go into the study for a few days until I am ready.

On the eighth day, I sent a mass message in the background of the official WeChat account, saying that I can definitely update the article when I put the table in order.

On the ninth day, I felt that if I waited like this, I might be old forever;

On the tenth day, I thought it might not be as bad as I thought. I can solve this problem with courage, just like I used to put a filter in my circle of friends every time I took a photo of the table, but this time there are things all over the floor, so I may need to make a gif to deceive myself.

On the eleventh day, I stayed in the company after work and wrote the above confession on the office computer, blaming myself for having time to make gif but not to organize it! All right! I will act today! Please urge my friends and relatives to urge me!

In fact, my friend has tried his best to help me. More than one friend has recommended the storage method of Mary Kondo to me, hoping it can really help me.

But I let them down.

Now that you mention this name again, you may have forgotten who she is. Let me remind you-the year before last, she was still very popular and was called "the queen of accommodation". Her book "Life-changing Sorting Magic: Japanese Chaos and Organizational Art" sells well all over the world and is said to have saved the lives of many fans.

At that time, I also read an article about Kondo while sitting between desks. I just think I need to be saved.

My two desks are piled up like a mountain of garbage. Two 45cm-high three-layer A4 drawer-type desktop storage cabinets and eight groups of smaller desktop drawers have been submerged among paper, stationery and various sundries. The little things were piled up in such a mess and so tightly that I didn't even have a gap to open the empty drawer. I could only sweat in cold weather.

What did I buy?

Not to mention the paper, pens, books and hand tools that we need every day, and the things that we bought on a whim but never used are piled up on one of the tables, such as a full set of paper lace paging tools and a full set of Gothic round English calligraphy pens, pens and copybooks. When I buy them, I think I will study hard and master a new skill efficiently to get a new hobby. In this way, buying is tantamount to practicing, and the tools solemnly built in the corner of the desk become dusty sundries.

What is even more frightening is those gadgets that can be purchased in unlimited quantities, which are "always needed", "occupy no space anyway" and "can be given to friends". I am ashamed to find myself in my thirties, hoarding piles of stickers and dozens of notebooks ... I don't need them, but I don't want to throw them away. After a long time, I finally got to the point where I wanted to write a manuscript, only to find that there was no room (there was even a pile of back-dated magazines on the chair, but I liked it).

This bad habit of shopping and hoarding began when I was able to spend my pocket money freely, that is to say, it has lasted for more than twenty years.

All kinds of imported greeting cards, cartoon stickers and manuals that were still fashionable at that time are still piled up in my parents' bookcases; Now, these are just some useless gadgets bought in recent years.

Just like tidying a wardrobe, tidying desks and bookcases comes several times a year. Although I feel dejected and remorseful every time, and scold myself for "doing something wrong" every time I tidy up, I have no intention of turning over a new leaf in action.

In short, when I sat down to catch my breath, it was already past ten o'clock at night. When sorting out and accepting things, I am very depressed and give up on myself.

However, reports about Ricoh Kondo appeared!

How lovely the pictures in that article are! With the help of the Queen, fans bid farewell to the messy room and have a neat and shiny "Kondo Room". Kondo style living room, people want to call at least ten friends to play games together; Kondo-style cloakroom gives you the illusion that "I am a rich second-generation blogger living on the Upper East Side" in minutes; Kondo-style learning, ah, if you can, you can write about 10 thousand words a day; Kondo-style kitchen, I think I can learn to cook in one month and make a cookbook shot in the kitchen!

Mr Kondo, as a professional sorting consultant, will stay in every household for about three to five days and work five hours a day, and the asking price for each order is about 10,000 yuan. She shared her food generously, that is, "Konmari method"-"thrilling storage method": sorting out clothes, books, documents, sundries, toys, souvenirs and so on. When sorting out each kind, pile up everything in front of you and pick it up in the same way. When you think it will make your heart beat, just leave it behind.

what did you say ? ! Let me throw things?

I told you! I said how those rooms in Kondo have changed so much! How to change from trash can to model house? It turned out that it was mainly by throwing things!

You don't have to teach me this! I cried when I saw this!

Mr Ricoh Kinki, how can you be the same as the Jing Daole Shikoku grocer Eiko Yamashita, who directed the sorting out and taught us to list 50 things to throw away, and taught us to collect and sort out the comic book Miss Mary?

You gentlemen, like my mother, only taught me to throw things!

Aren't you all called "storage masters" and you are not Zen masters? Why do you always guide me to buy less things?

Unhappy!

After reading Mr. Kulikuang Kondo's post, I closed WeChat, opened the online shopping APP, and bought a lot of sorting boxes, storage boxes and so on in one breath. I'm going to try to sort out what I have, instead of throwing it away.

What if you don't feel heartache in your hand? Even if I haven't used it for three years, even if I look at it and think, "Ah, I haven't seen this before." When I took out my wallet for the first time, I was filled with joy. They make me happy. How can I throw it away? It is murder to let people like me silently abandon those innocent gadgets with anthropomorphic lines in order to serve me in everything. ...

I put Ricoh Kondo's "thrilling storage method" behind me, mustered all my strength, and finished the arrangement of my desk in the early morning of the next day. I was very satisfied and moved by myself, so I quickly took photos and sent them to my circle of friends. "Congratulations, but it will pile up soon." This is the feedback from most friends.

Although I am angry and think they look down on me, I also know the future development direction of things: temporary neatness has made me have the illusion of "Oh, my desk is so spacious". Next time I see funny stickers, dreamy notebooks, interesting and useless stationery, I will still buy it, just like I will buy another round of clothes bags every time I finally tidy up my closet.

My friend Kimo said that Kondo Ricoh's theory is useless to hoarders like us. I asked her what to do, and she said, forget it, it's hopeless.

But my other friend, Director Li, is very optimistic. She just redecorated the house and made a huge shoe cabinet. She found that she had bought too many shoes to chop, and the new shoe cabinet could not hold half of them. "I should buy some more."

She gave me a new idea, either redecorating the house with storage capacity as the first principle and installing cabinets where it can be built, or trying to buy a bigger house.

This solution is more suitable for greedy me (us) than the "parting", "mental method" and "list of 50 things to throw away" taught by Japanese talents.

But there is still a problem. Major disasters such as explosions, earthquakes and fires often lead to some kind of introspection-what if this happens to me? How many things can you take with you when you run away from home in a hurry, limited edition handmade, antique music box, idol signature book, precious travel souvenirs, and advanced diary with your own name printed on it? There are so many things that I dare not even think about, let alone take away. Maybe I can't even take the bank card and gold and silver from the safe. Just take the whole family and escape smoothly. ...

What will happen after that?

I imagine myself standing on a scorched earth, and the protagonist of the disaster film is standing there. Clothes, shoes, bags, books, records and handmade cosmetics are not attached, so they can only be stored from scratch.

But oh! Back to today, at this moment, I still have to face cursed study when I go home. I still have to rely on my own strength to change it back to a usable state.

After writing this, I'll go home and start over, really.