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comes from my Gran. Wise woman – a lot to learn from her,
alphabetised spice shelf, colour coded clothes drawer; are we seeing
a family resemblance here?
But the order thing must have skipped a generation. My mother
is a stellar example of why this matters. She carries a cavernous
handbag full of all sorts of unnecessary objects. It is pointless, as she
can never find anything she wants amongst the rubble and debris.
And that really matters. She never has any certainty about the
location of her car keys which, very disturbingly, means that I am
likely to be late. None of that ‘better late than never’ line will ever
wash with me. I live by a simple mantra when it comes to timeliness,
early is on time, on time is late and late is unacceptable.
There is a whole world out there enticing you towards a life that
lacks discipline and structure. Don’t sweat the small stuff, you hear.
Sorry girls, I am here to tell you should be sweating buckets over
those details because a mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth
and the ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Chaos is simply
order waiting to be deciphered – and the sooner the better.
‘
Oh, Order Is A
Lovely Thing
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