From A Clean Freak To Another Clean Freak

Referring to my sister's blog, I am writting this in hope to help her handle the "clean freak" situation of her son.

Hmm... where should I start ? Being a clean freak myself, I know it is difficult on others around us who are not as clean-freaky as we are. That is the reason why I do not like having housemates cause I know I can be a pain-in-the-a** when comes to living together.

But it is not a bad thing being a clean freak. As long as your level of freakiness is acceptable (like me...hehe...). But if you have reached Jack Nickolson's level in 'As Good As It Gets', then I would say that you seriously, seriously need to get a life...

Ok now... back to my mission. A little advice for the little clean freak:

Now imagine our human body is a big piece of land/country. Every country will have their own troups of army, to protect their country from enemies and harm. So does our body, we have little troups of army in our body, they are called, "the immune system".

If we are constantly clean, our body will have no chance to be exposed to the dirty and nasty things, like germs and bacteria. Because of this, our little army will not know how our enemy looks like. They will have no idea how the enemy behave and will not know how to tackle the enemy because they never got a chance to study them.

So when an extremely clean person actually ate something dirty or got themselves infected by bacteria, they will become really sick compared to those who are not as clean as them. Reason being, their little troups of army just had a sudden attack by unknown enemy to them. The army are not prepared to fight back as they have no clue how the enemy works.

But for those who occasionally come into contact with germs and bacteria, because their little troups of army were exposed to the enemy from time to time, they have plenty of time to study the enemy and get themselves ready to fight back when the enemy launches big attack. That is why people with stronger immune system are less likely to fall sick.

So you see, being clean is good. Being extremely clean can actually make you weaker. But being dirty is asking for trouble. At the end of the day, it all comes down to balance...

Now hopefully this will help my little clean freak nephew to understand :)

Good luck sis...