Life's Buffer Space

I recently realised the importance of having a 'Buffer Space' in life - and have been using it to solve many problems of mine. I am still to get rid of the really nasty problems, but the typical clutter has definitely reduced considerably.

Analogy: if you want your desk to look tidy, and want your drawers to be organized - then find a space which you can officially mess-up with. I keep my desk and 3 drawers tidy by dumping all the mess in the 4th drawer.

Hence, in an urgency, if I don't know where to keep some papers, or some recently collected business cards, or perhaps my mobile charger - I just dump it in the messy drawer. The desk and the other drawers remain tidy, and I still know where I will definitely find something that I can't trace easily.

Similarly, I have a "messy" buffer space in my wardrobe, and a similar buffer space in the kitchen, and a buffer space in my backpack too.

Probably, even problems need to be organized.

I have started marking buffer spaces in my daily calendar too - this is the time when I give all the time to my problems in whichever way I can - sulking, sighing, or solving. I stop consciously attending to these problems beyond this duration. Normally, this buffer space conincides with my 20 min walk back home, and continues till 15 minutes after that.