Get Organized: A tribute to Aristotle

As Mr. Allen and Sophie's World taught us- "Aristotle used logic and classification to organize what he observed in the world of nature." (Humanities website)


Well, Our challenge for this blog post was to find something to organize and then to record our thought process and answer a few questions.


My initial reaction:




My project was my, always messy, bedroom. Now before getting started, I wanted to push all the clothes I had thrown on my bed off, curl up, and sleep. Even thinking of doing such time-consuming work already exhausted me.


Then, I decided, well I have to do it for homework, and sanitary reasons, anyways. Why not just get it over with? And so began my endeavor to a cleaner, happier room.


I turned on my Pandora- Beyonce radio- and got to work. When I'm doing something I really don't want to do, like cleaning my room or doing homework- in this case both- Music tends to take my mind off of it.


While in the midst of cleaning my room, I began to organize.

-Short sleeves in one drawer- That will be my summer drawer

-Long sleeves in the other drawer- Winter drawer

-Sweat shirts in this drawer- fall drawer

and so on...


That's when I connected to Aristotle. He says that everything has it's place in nature, there is never an out of a category. Like how every shirt, sweatshirt, tank top and every pair of pants have a specific spot in my closet.


As I went on cleaning, I found my mind began to become more and more clear with other tasks and things I have to do. I felt more organized and less anxious and stressed.




Once I finally finished cleaning, for some reason, I didn't have the urge to sleep in my bed anymore... Mostly because I just finished making it and I didn't want to ruin my hard work so soon.


But, this project made me realize that Aristotle was 100% right that organization is just like classification in the world of nature. long-sleeves belong with long-sleeves as Zebras belong with Zebras. And if you mix your Long-sleeves with the tank tops, it's like putting a Cheetah and a Zebra in the same place. It just doesn't belong.