# The Environment we ignore: The mind we Destroy 

> What if the reason many of us feel overwhelmed and irritated every day isn’t spiritual or personal, but environmental?

**Published by:** [Train of Thoughts](https://paragraph.com/@trainofthoughts/)
**Published on:** 2025-12-11
**Categories:** environment, waste, nigeria, argentina
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@trainofthoughts/the-environment-we-ignore-the-mind-we-destroy

## Content

Visiting Argentina and observing how waste is managed, how coordinated, organized, and intentional people are shifted my perspective in a profound way. It made me realize something I’ve known about myself for a long time, but hadn’t fully connected to our reality as a country. Whenever I find myself in a messy, cluttered space, my brain shuts down. I become irritated, distracted, unable to work, and unproductive until I clear it out. Many of us experience this. Sometimes the clutter is physical, sometimes it’s internal, too many tasks, too many blockers, or emotional baggage like grief, jealousy, anger, guilt, or resentment weighing us down. Now imagine waking up each day and stepping into an environment where everywhere you turn, there’s exposed trash. You finally find a bin, but the waste is spilled across the floor. You pass by the market and the stench makes your stomach tighten because the dumpsite has sat there for days, forming a mountain of garbage. Nylon bags have practically become citizens of their own. Walkways look like uncleared drainages. How can a society function with clarity when people live day in, day out, surrounded by visual chaos, stench, and disorder? Sometimes what we truly need is to slow down and to pause, to evaluate our environment and our thoughts. Decluttering, both inside and outside, doesn’t slow us down; it prepares us to move faster, with more clarity and less anxiety. Many of us are overwhelmed without even knowing why. We call it "cruise," but our minds and bodies are reacting. Those angry, impatient strangers we meet are often responding to stressors they don’t even recognize. And this isn’t only about the government failing to care for its people. It’s also about the people failing to care for themselves. The responsibility for our sanity, our functionality, and our collective wellbeing belongs to us just as much as it does to any administration. When we treat our environment with care, we treat ourselves with care. A functional society requires functional surroundings. Declutter to function. Declutter to breathe. Declutter to live with clarity. Start with your Doormot. Declutter for functionality.

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