Simplicity
Everywhere I go, I hear the message 'simplicity' but what does it mean?
Perhaps we understand it better if we look at complexity. Complexity means keeping up with the Joneses ... striving for fame, fortune and power when we know these desires leave our guts empty and make us hungry for more ... and that makes us soul-hungry, gives us stress, adds to sadness, malaise and depression. Complexity means racing from place to place, speeding, racing though red lights, and never enjoying the place where we are because we're thinking of the next place where we should be. Complexity is the way of a wondrous world that lies to us and tells us that we 'should be happy' when we get that next promotion, raise, car, flat screen ... but the process of adaption makes these things meaningless in a matter of weeks. Complexity sees us fail to be happy by claiming these 'things' that are supposed to make us happy. Complexity is feeling like a bad parent while at work, and, when our child is sick and needs us at home, feeling like a bad employee because we're looking after our kids. Comlexity feels like you're winning when you know you're really losing.
Simplicity, then is the opposite of complexity. Simplicity gives us a chance to win at life. It is a quiet moment of meditation. A hug from a child. A touch from a friend who loves you during a time of peace or unrest. A dinner with close friends. Simplicity is sometimes not doing your housework because in the grand scheme of things, a little dust in the corner doesn't matter. Simplicity is slower, but like the tortoise and the hare, the race is won. Simplicity is fulness of being. Happiness. Love. Doing what we're good at instead of trying to fix weaknesses. We can give more in simpicity. We have more of ourselves and therefore there is more to give. Human kindness is doable, then. Driving within the laws of the road is easier then. Doing without what the world of complexity tells us we require, is acceptable when we defeat stress, malaise and depression.
Simplicity.
Lately everywhere I go, everything I read is about simplicity. What is the universe trying to tell me. What is it, through me, trying to tell you?
Perhaps we understand it better if we look at complexity. Complexity means keeping up with the Joneses ... striving for fame, fortune and power when we know these desires leave our guts empty and make us hungry for more ... and that makes us soul-hungry, gives us stress, adds to sadness, malaise and depression. Complexity means racing from place to place, speeding, racing though red lights, and never enjoying the place where we are because we're thinking of the next place where we should be. Complexity is the way of a wondrous world that lies to us and tells us that we 'should be happy' when we get that next promotion, raise, car, flat screen ... but the process of adaption makes these things meaningless in a matter of weeks. Complexity sees us fail to be happy by claiming these 'things' that are supposed to make us happy. Complexity is feeling like a bad parent while at work, and, when our child is sick and needs us at home, feeling like a bad employee because we're looking after our kids. Comlexity feels like you're winning when you know you're really losing.
Simplicity, then is the opposite of complexity. Simplicity gives us a chance to win at life. It is a quiet moment of meditation. A hug from a child. A touch from a friend who loves you during a time of peace or unrest. A dinner with close friends. Simplicity is sometimes not doing your housework because in the grand scheme of things, a little dust in the corner doesn't matter. Simplicity is slower, but like the tortoise and the hare, the race is won. Simplicity is fulness of being. Happiness. Love. Doing what we're good at instead of trying to fix weaknesses. We can give more in simpicity. We have more of ourselves and therefore there is more to give. Human kindness is doable, then. Driving within the laws of the road is easier then. Doing without what the world of complexity tells us we require, is acceptable when we defeat stress, malaise and depression.
Simplicity.
Lately everywhere I go, everything I read is about simplicity. What is the universe trying to tell me. What is it, through me, trying to tell you?
This article is right. Why take life for granted when you should be enjoying every day to the fullest like it was your last. There should be no need for stress in the world, but yet there still is because every person worries about tomorrow and never today or the moment they're living in.
I deffinitly think there should be more simplicity in the world, other than complexity.
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