Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience--to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
-M. Scott Peck
I like this. Not a day goes by that I am not somehow confronted with messages to "simplify" my life, usually in the form of some new organizing or filing system. You know the routine: take a few hours or days, move everything to a new easy-to-find location (that is somehow better than the last easy-to-find location from the previous simplified system that you set up). You get everything in place, manage to keep it organized for a couple weeks, and then the clutter builds back up and you decide "Enough of this mess! I need a system!" and it starts all over again.
Personally? I'd rather just take the time I would be setting up a new system (and less time, at that) and periodicly just sort the piles into their respective homes.
But I digress, because really, the problem with simplicity isn't in wasting time by constantly redoing systems, or weeding the excess activities out of our life. The problem lies more in the needless frustration simplicity, or rather, its pursuit causes. Like the quote said- "appreciate the fact that life is complex".
Posted by Jenn at March 30, 2006 02:49 PM