Entropy

"Disorder is always increasing"

These are the words my physics professor used to define the word entropy many years ago when I sat at a high school sized desk. While the other kids in the class jotted down this new word and its definition in their notebooks, my mind went elsewhere. I knew had just met my organizational nemesis - entropy.

Disorder lurks around the corner, anxious and eager to rear its cluttered head into each and every spot you do not defend and protect. Disorder can arise suddenly, after a week of neglect, or it can pile up steadily, year after year. Creating disorder is much easier and certainly more spontaneous (and fun) than reinstating or maintaining order. But once disorder is created it will inevitably turn on you, becoming a nagging burden or even worse, a silent stressor in the corner of the room. Disorder is always more powerful and stubborn than order. As soon as you look the other way, there comes disorder, slithering back to reinstate its domain.