Messy Vs Neat

Last night I stayed up until 5:00 a.m. cleaning my house. Okay, cleaning occured until 4:15 a.m. After that, two glasses of wine, a hot bath, and a dvd took up the rest of the time. And I have been thinking about a book I once gave someone (an unintentional gift, you know how those go) that said messy people are messy because they are perfectionists. Now before you go off, think about it.

We can't clean the whole house, so we clean none of it. The idea of only one room being clean is unacceptable. We like symetry. But we rarely have time to clean the whole house, so... We want reality, not appearances. If we see a piece of paper on the floor, we think, "I need to vacuum." Since we don't have time... The "neat" person sees the paper, picks it up, and thinks, "clean floor."

So messy people are actually obsessed with cleanliness and perfection much more than neat freaks. What do you think?