Simplicity

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life --- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

I happened to come across the above-mentioned quote while I was reading some news. If you have been reading the news recently, you know that things have been bad around the world, with a sense of things seemingly spiralling out of control.

So the quote above, touched a nerve.

I couldn't help but wonder, how much of the chaos rippling through the world now is a consequence of humanity's propensity for complication. How many wars can be traced back to a decision taken ages ago in the name of doing what was perceived to be good and right? How much of the rage swirling around the world has its roots in people feeling wronged, slighted and imprisoned by the social systems we create to impose order on the world?



Life.

Life is simple so let us not over-complicate things.

Walk out that door
Close your eyes
Let the sunlight warm your face as the wind tousles your hair.
Take a deep breath
Life is that simple.