Several months ago I saw Lynard Skynnard playing a new song on the Mike Huckabee show. The song was called 'Simple Life'. The concept got me thinking about our lives today and what a simple life would be like.
When I think about my evenings and what I am going to do, I see that there is a whole list of activities which can be done and many distractions there to keep me from doing what I plan to do. It is not so much as getting caught up in Facebook or playing other online games. It is there are so many things going on in our lives that we might find our home lives like our work lives with our task list a never ending list of to dos.
The simple life is hard to define. To me it would be having less options in life. Less paths to take and knowing that each of the remaining paths were something that I wanted to do.
We often look for more options when we feel constricted and trapped. And yet, when we get those additional options, we seem to open a Pandora's box of challenges. Like going to a lunch room and having friends in 10 different tables all wave you over to sit with them at the same time. You know you want to make them happy, and if you could you would go to an empty table and invite all 10 to join you, but life is seldom that simple.
We have to constantly re-evaluate our options and start trimming them back every now and again. Like hair and nails, they will continue to grow unless you trim them, so will the options which open to us every day.
When we feel trapped, maybe the solution is not more options, rather, less options. We may be able to focus our efforts in one area and have less distractions from that path.
Less is more, and less is simpler.
Something to think about.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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