【Half a Year in June】That's it! Let's Clean

Are you cleaning?

If I could, I would skip it.

That is the wish of Kireido.

Because

Even if I clean every day,
it gets dirty right beside me, and things get scattered,
which becomes stressful.

Even if I clean the room, especially the living room,
toys start playing immediately.

I have two children in my home.

Because children live in the moment,
they do what they want to do with all their might at that time.

And their interests shift one after another...
At that time, there is no concept of tidying up.

What are these creatures called children!

Forgetting that I was a child once,
I am stunned by the room that never gets clean.

I know that I haven't been able to convey
the pleasure of tidying up.

I also vaguely realize that I must
continue to convey it patiently.

However...

If you are a mother raising children,
I wonder if you can understand this feeling?

Well, June is almost over.

Tomorrow marks half of 2020 already.

On the last day of the sixth lunar month, shrines everywhere hold
a ritual to purify the impurities of the past six months and pray for good health for the remaining six months,

the "Nagoshi no Harae" (Summer Purification Ritual).

It is held.

When you live every day,
no matter how pure a person you are, you will inevitably
accumulate "impurities."

Just like dust.

Instead of leaving them to pile up,
you should clear them away little by little.

Meditation and Zazen clean away the things that tend to accumulate daily,
like the dust inside your head.

That's why meditation...

But that's not what I want to talk about today.

Just as impurities accumulate in humans,
the same can certainly be said for a house.

There is a flow of 'qi' inside a house,
and if you don't clean, stagnant, non-flowing qi will fill the space.

It's a bit daunting to spend every day in such a space, isn't it?

A big cleaning on New Year's Eve
to clean the house before welcoming the new year.

This is well-established, but

a big cleaning after half a year

I wonder if many people don't think about this.

However,
cleaning precisely because it is the end of June,
and spending the remaining half of the year comfortably

is, in a sense, a good reason to clean.

So,
I washed the curtains in my home.

I don't do it very often, but
about once every six months, I wash away
the dust and impurities that have accumulated daily.

Since it takes up a fairly large area of the room,
it feels great when this part is clean.

It's easy to overlook,
but curtains actually accumulate quite a bit of dust.

They also serve as a barrier between the outside and the inside.

Leaving them dirty is... well, you know?

If you wash them and put them right back on the curtain rod,
they dry before you know it,
so it's quick once you find the motivation.

Oh, and don't forget the top of the curtain rod, too.

For floor cleaning, it's not just about using a vacuum,
I feel like wiping it down with a damp cloth changes the air in the room.

Temples and shrines are cleaned thoroughly every day,
and by cleaning, both the room and yourself become clean.

They must have known that, which is why cleaning became a habit.

Oh, that's right, at some point I also removed the drain cover in the bathroom.

By making it visible,
I'm using a strategy to put pressure on myself
to get the cleaning done.

In the past, I tended to put off cleaning, using being busy as an excuse.

Because of that, there are even black mold stains in the bathroom that won't come off...

(Sorry for the messy photo as well)

There's no point in regretting it, so
I intend to keep it as clean as possible from now on
.

It's a strategy to put pressure on myself by making a declaration.

It's easy for mold to grow during the rainy season due to the humidity.
Everyone knows that.

Clean it up.

Honestly, it's a hassle.

But

even if I don't want to do it,
not doing it is scarier in the long run.

Because mold can also be a cause of illness.

A creature known as [lazy]
doesn't move easily unless there is a trigger.

They will try to slack off if they can.

So, to do what is necessary, I create a trigger for myself.

The trigger this time was
'Half the year is over in June, so let's clean'

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Kireido (The Way of Cleanliness)

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