When we are creating a mess in our life, we hardly notice it until the ‘last day’…where we rest and look at our creation of mess and complication. Our mess becomes a web and we start wondering how the whole thing started. In order to ‘match or out-do’ the world, we feel we have to be sophisticated and our sophistication leads to complications and then in a mess.
Either we hate the simple life or we believe sophistication makes us great and appealing. It’s usually the least important and unhelpful things that force us to put the truly important things on the back burner. There’s power in being simple – live the simple life with a strong mind.
Leading a simple life might seem like a boring option to many people (who are already in a mess), but actually it has many advantages and is very good for many aspects of our lives.
Some people channel their simplicity and sophistication to the wrong places. Very simple in mind and sophistication to where it’s not needed. People who think they’re sophisticated are a bunch of confused people with simple minds. Anywhere they go, they either like to show off or play the ‘do you know who I am’ card – that’s identity crisis because if you know who you are, you won’t need anyone to validate you and also ‘good people and things’ don’t make noise; their goodness in character and deed ‘talk’ on their behalf. The people who have little to nothing love to show off to whoever cares to watch and listen.
Simple people learn a lot because of they are submissive and humble. Their sophistication is in their brains (good problem solvers) and they are eager to learn from both the young and old. People get opportunities and waste it because they lacked the simple skill of submission/humility. Being submissive does not mean you’re subservient.
Powerful, successful and ambitious people are very simple in character but very strong (sophisticated) and subtle in mind. What defines them is both their simplicity and sophistication. They are simple but very unpredictable (and confusing) and it’s good to be unpredictable (sometimes just confuse people with who you are) because when you’re a predictable character, you open yourself to different types of abuse – people abuse your kindness and take your quiet and easy going nature for stupidity.
Simplicity pays…in character, style and manner. It takes away all the complications and stress from our daily routines because it costs less (debt free, clutter free and less worry). Be a multi-dimensional person – a lion (strong in mind, thought and deed) and a lamb (humility, submissive and simple). A simple lifestyle has fewer material things in it but rich in beauty and sophistication. It exudes classic elegance and that is the life we need to live – free of clutter and mess!