MeMy Bedroo
What your personal space says about your personality
By Joe Hunt
jhunt@kansan.com
Lesley Latham's bedroom is meticulously organized. Each corner reflects a different area of her life, be it love, prosperity or health. To most people, a green bedspread is no different than a blue one, unless they have an aesthetic preference. But Latham, Republic sophomore, is convinced her green and blue bedspread is making her sick.
Latham practices Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese art of arranging objects to create harmony in an environment. She has arranged her room into nine distinct squares, and each square only contains items and colors that are appropriate to it. An exception is the green and blue bedspread, which sits in the health square of her room. According to Feng Shui principles, blue is not a good color for health, and Latham plans to change the bedspread as soon as she can afford it. Until she does, she can plan on being sick. "My bedroom directly affects my life."
she explains as she sips on some hot tea to help with her cold.
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However, you don't need to subscribe to the idea of Feng ShuI to see a correlation between yourself and your bedroom. Whether you have "later" owner of your
room to relationships, you can't leave the house without making your bed or you organize your clothes in piles on the floor, your space can say something about you.
One of Latham's first projects began about six months ago when she decided to beef up the relationship corner of her room. One month after outfitting it with red colors and flowers, Latham began to start casually dating for the first time since high school."I called my mom, and asked 'Mom, what are three things I never do?'" Drugs, drinking and dating, her mother replied. "Well, I'm doing one of those things," she said. The response from her mother? "What? You're drinking?"
Although Latham and her roommate both practice Feng Shui, only three KU students list it as an interest on Facebook. In fact, the majority of students can be lumped into two different categories: those who are messy and those who are clean. There is some wiggle room between the two – not all students will
be entirely messy or entirely clean - but those with bedrooms that tend toward one extreme admit that their room does reflect their personality.
Lesley Latham lounges on her blue and green beds Shui, having the color blue
Brad Dillard,
Wichita senior,
describes himself
as a laidback,
carefree person.
A quick look
into his room will
confirm that. The
room is dimly lit,
and the floor is littered with clothes, both clean and dirty. He says he can tell what's clean and what isn't, though to the untrained eye it might be difficult. A couple dirty plates sit atop the television. Dillard will take them upstairs to the kitchen sooner or later, but he's in no rush. "I'm far from upright," he explains.
This doesn't mean Dillard is irresponsible or unsanitary, though. His room hasn't been thoroughly tidied up in a while, but it doesn't give off any offensive
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