“Our life is
frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity.”
Henry David
Thoreau
Very
true… So, let's keep it simple today... Unfortunately, we find ourselves growing up in a dispensation of mass
production, of things being available 24/7, and there are so many this that hampers
people from living a life of simplicity, everything became so complex. In the
same manner that our complex and wasteful lifestyles have an impact on the
environment, on depleting resources, in generating clutter and in wasting
money, so it also has an impact on time. Time is the stuff life is made of, so
don’t worry, when you waste time, due to living your complex life, you are
simply wasting life. We also tend to waste what is important, like our
friendships and other relations. We do this because, nowadays, we can make new
friends within an instance; we waste our talents. We waste and waste. Wasteful
people are not wise people, that is what I say, and many will agree with me,
but unfortunately not the majority. I wonder when will humanity start looking
around them with haggard faces at the devastation their own wasteful attitudes
has made. In a more simplistic lifestyle, this will not be the case. Only the
wise fail to waste, and only they realize the wide impact of a wasteful
attitude and of a simplistic lifestyle. Thoreau is right to shout: Simplicity…
Simplicity… Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said that in character, in manner, in
style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity; and Lao-Tzu says
that: “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.” Are they yours as well?
I
will waste any available resource,
without
having any remorse…
This
is the typical mannerism,
brought
about by mass production and consumerism…
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