Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Organization and Order


Quote of the day:
“I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.”
--Steven Wright

Have you ever noticed how energizing and empowering it is to organize something? It’s an interesting phenomenon--bringing order also brings life.

Because it is energizing and empowering, organization can be overdone. It can become a compulsion. A sort-of addiction.

It’s paradoxical, in a way. Organization and order seem like nothing but positive characteristics. And there’s such an extraordinary need for them. How is it possible to have too much of them?

Maybe in an abstract sense, things can never be too organized. But when we human beings get involved, there are some of us who just have to overdo it.

For our own reasons.

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