Clean up Your Room - Akira the Don

You gotta be oriented towards something

Because otherwise you’re disoriented you just spin around in circles and then

you suffer

And so do people around you

It’s not a good solution

Orient yourself towards something

You have to figure out what it is

What will work for you

What goal

Would justify the suffering of your life

Start trying to piece that together, you’re going to get better at it

Start trying to piece that together, you’re going to get better at it

But it’s a personal process so you need a prsonal place to stand because

othrwise you’re going to be handed a place to stand on a plate

And it may be one that makes you a puppet

Of someone else’s goals (Yeah)

So, I would say what are the processes?

Well, I think, what I’ve recommended to people is

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Then you’ll know what to do next

See if you can stop saying things you know to be lies

That’s not the same as telling the truth

You don’t get to do that to begin with because you’re not good enough at it to

even attempt it in some sense

But everyone can stop saying things they know to be falsehoods

Stop saying things that violate your conscious

Here’s another idea

Stop saying and doing things that make you feel weak

All you have to do is pay attention to that

Some things you do will make you feel disintegrated

It’s a physiological sensation

Some things improve your integrity and some things disintegrate you

The things that disintegrate you, you often do to impress other people (Yeah)

You’re escaping what you know to be your moral obligation

And your moral obligation stems naturally from your aims

And if you don’t have an aim, well, then

You’re aimless

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Then you’ll know what to do next

I had a girl come up to me last night

She said;

I started cleaning up my room

And it completely changed my life

She said your room is an externalization of your mind

And that’s right, that’s exactly true

To the degree that you’re in your room;

the room is you

So straighten up what you can straighten up and quit saying things that make

you feel weak

And then

Then you’ll know what to do next (Yes)

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Clean up your room

Then you’ll know what to do next

It’s like, hey, man, you have a room

Most people throughout human history have not had a room

You have a room

Well, my room is a hell hole

It’s like, well, then you’re a denizen of hell inhabiting it, you should do

something about that

Well, what?

Well put it in minimal order

Get your clothes together 'cause you have to wear those, people are looking at

your clothes

What clothes should you be wearing?

Not the clothes of a total wretched loser, how about that?

(Yes)

What about your bed?

Well is it comfortable?

Do you make it in the morning?

So it looks like half civilized

Can you sleep there?

It’s like, is there junk everywhere, so you just hate your life when you walk

into your room

It’s like clean the damn thing up, see if you can do it

Order your drawers, learn to fold your clothes, put it in minimal order

And then, man, you can get spectacular and you said put a plant in there

It’s like, maybe I could make it beautiful