The Simple Life

What is it about life that makes it all so complicated. We could say everything, and that nothing is easy. Work is hard, relationships are even harder and that's basically what our world is made up of. Work and relationships. What we need to do is take a step back from the modern world of all the high tech gadgets and look around and the beautiful, simple things in life. Take a walk, not on the streets but maybe a park or a trail away from the sound of cars all that city noise. Something that I wonder on occasion:Why is it that we watch TV? It's not real, except maybe for the news which has a 90% chance of always being depressing. Why not instead turn off the TV and interact with the people around you say that life is so short; so why aren't majority of us making the most out of life. Life could be simple. You could wake up on a cloudy day and say to yourself "Today is going to be a beautiful day". Every day is a beautiful day, mother nature is revealing all the supernatural powers of the world and showing us what she can do.

What is it with our possessions, ideas, and beliefs - that causes us to hang on so tightly to them? If we hold on too tightly to these things, we get rope burn.
The wisdom of letting go comes into play. Surya Das; a Buddhist scholar once said; "Rather than the way many of us are brought up to hold on, gather riches, stuff, and information ' as if more is always better ' there is the middle way that means not throwing it all away, but also not falling into the fallacy that more is always better, bigger, faster. We start instead to live in a more moderate, balanced, harmonious, simple kind of life." I think we have to look at what happens if we hold on to things. I feel like its totally irrational, but when I clean out my closets, the clothes I haven't worn in three to five years, or my basement, attic or even my locker,I feel like I can breathe better. We need to learn once again to be with the people, the nature and just ourselves, rather than the objects that we've become so dependent on. We need to get back to the simplicity and pure joy of getting a letter from someone in the mail, smelling flowers, hearing an "I love you" or laughter. We need to get back to the simple life.