When did you become tidy...or messy? and why?

As a child were you messy or tidy? Did this change? When did it change and why?

I personally went from loving mess and being a messy child and then I remember the very day that I just decided that I was going to be tidy. I was 6, I cleaned my room and tidied it and never looked back. I have been an incredibly tidy person ever since, even to the point of detesting it. Have I left an integral part of my character behind somewhere?

This question comes from discussions with my friend about how children have a lot to teach us that we are unaware of. He said to me at one point “just move out of the way, stop picking up the balls” and it got me thinking about why I feel the incessant need to tidy…which made me remember that as a child I didn’t have this need at all!

So whether you were messy once and now tidy or tidy and now messy, or you’ve always been one way or the other, I’d,like to hear your stories and particularly why and when you changed and if you feel you are living in alignment with your “true-self” i.e. what you really want…

Thank you xxx