Why are you so simple?

Are you so… Simple? How do you live a simple life? Often people throw this question to a person who is leading a simple life.

So, what do you mean by living a simple life? Your style of talking, Lifestyle, the clothes you wear, the accessories you wear, the type of car you drive everything matters to you. When you get your luxury car, your friends and relatives feel proud of you. Their congratulations lift your courage and keep you motivated to purchase extra.

We thrive for the luxury of lifestyle. Choosing to establish your brand favorites and show up amid our acquaintances.  Craving for materials and add up more materials surrounding you. A question to be asked for self is “Is that all materials gathered around me are very essential to my life?”

There are very few people who are famous, billionaires, and still lead a simple lifestyle. How do they do it? Being kind and humble even when they can buy the greatest thing on this earth. Simplicity is brilliance. My memory saves only which is essential to my life. Then, how do I decide what is essential?

Few people come from a humble background but still, they desire for extravagance life when they are in the possession of great accomplishments.

During this Covid19 lockdown period, everyone realized that “People are buying what is inevitable to their present life and stopped spending money on Luxuries”. Except very much necessarily needed such as food and medicine.

I stopped seeing On-line shopping Apps. I find myself asking, is that required? is that compulsory? do I really need it? am I able to donate something to people who are needy at the time of crises? I never thought my cupboard would be loaded with unnecessary stuff. The minimalist approach is one that we all should be adopting to have a simple life. The ultimate sophistication comes from Simplicity.  

Which one do you choose now, to be simple? Wearing clean and neat cloth or wearing expensive cloth? Lesser number of cloths. Easy to select and wear.

Now, let me tell you about talking simple.  If your listener is unable to understand you, it’s because primarily you have the intention of making intricate and engineered sentences. The purpose is to mislead your listener and to be more careful. You are not keeping it simple. Reduce the number of acronyms.

If my intention is just to communicate a clear message, then probably use words that are easily understandable by the listener. Hence, your way of communicating messages also a reflection of your simplicity. But, why are you worried about words here?

Look at the innocent toddlers, when they talk to us with their smile, eyes, and facial expressions. We feel happy to talk to babies without any difficulties.  Simplicity is being happy. Toddlers just tell you clearly what they want to tell. Because I do not think they have different intentions while trying to connect. How do you perceive is left to the clarity of your mind?

Summing up:  Taking a turn back to my opening question. The answer is our lifestyle and our talking style comes from decisions made within. It’s nothing but thinking simple from your mind. You have to work hard to make your thinking clean to make it simple. Let me go and have a simple breakfast. Is it meaningful? Simple is not equal to easy.