A slice of life; Chapter 1: "A slice of a bum's life"

Welcome to the weekly post called "A slice of life." I've decided to start this blog for a few reason. First reason being, I just have to post something, two i've got nothing better to do and lastly this might be interesting. "A slice of life" touches on different types of personality each week.

Chapter 1. "A slice of a bum's life."

So what makes a bum, a bum? Is it the way he is capable of living in clutter? Is it how he could not care to groom himself? Is it the fact that he won't cook and only buys take outs? Is it the fact that he's lazy? What induces them to live their life with not a single care? Then you'd ask yourself this question, am i one?

I would classify myself as a part-time bum. Why do i say that? Well, when i have nothing better to do, i'd clean up after myself and do radical changes to my room or myself (like the recent spontaneous decision of being "Ah Beng"). When i'm overloaded with uni work and etc, i'd probably be sleeping under a pile clothes on my bed. Or eventually having loads of crap on the floor that i find the top the level of the floor matches the top of my mattress (over-exaggerating) which i won't be bothered cleaning up until i'm done with all my work.

So why is it that bums rather chuck their rubbish or things to the floor rather than in the bin or organising them neatly? And why is it that its only cleaning and reorganising is done when the mess is over the top? My opinion is, we find a sense of accomplishment or satisfication in cleaning up and reorganising a room filled with tonnes of clutter rather than a small amount of it.

It's just that feeling where you feel that your in a room looks new even though you didn't move any of the furniture. That way it will take so much longer for you to get sick of it and start to reorganise the furniture again. Also, the fact that you've cleared up more space, you get the feeling that you've got room to stretch those legs of yours.

The only part of my bum's life that i won't change is cooking for myself. Indeed, living a life surviving on take outs is costly and unhealthy, but the time taken for me to prepare a meal is so long that by the time i'm done cooking, i've pretty much lost my appetite due to gastric.

So in conclusion to this, there's a bum in everyone. Guys can be lazy to fix their hair for a day, or girls can be lazy by deciding not to put make up on for a day, or a family that decides to eat out to treat themselves over a hard days work.

So next week in Chapter 2 of "A slice of life." we'd tune into a life of a technology addict. What makes them spend all their money on technology and why are they never satisfied with what they have.

Also what is missing in the picture above? Stay tune to "A slice of life" where there's a little bit of you in every slice.