[ life:revisited 2010 + 1 ]

Yep. The great author Henry David Thoreau said to simplify life. If only he knew how complicated the world would become after his lifetime, he would probably simplify his life by having a stroke after seeing today's world. Everything is so intertwined: Personal relationships, job issues, money issues, health problems, family matters, and all the host of other things that assault you in your daily routines. It can almost be overwhelming when you get home and try to write checks for the bills, only to see that you forgot to order checks. Goodbye calm, hello postal.

Most of us today do not have any way to truly simplify, so no amazing knowledge from me. I can't just move to a state park somewhere and live off the land. I happen to be a techgeek, so no electricity make Homer go something something. Crazy? Don't mind if I do. But at the same time, I have complicated my life with so much inane crap (see Z3ro's blog posting on the side links), that its hard to concentrate on what matters, or even truly know what does matter! WTF?!?

I see other people's lives, and I think they are wayy easier than mine, as I am sure we are all guilty of. But my logic tells me that they are in the same short bus I am, and they have just as many issues, they just happen to hide it better, or I don't see them when the fecal matter hits the rotary oscillator. Hopefully I appear the same way, or I must look like I am stark raving mad sometimes. I wonder if this is the same for everyone else, or am I just being neurotic. Or maybe just more neurotic than usual.

Well, at the risk of turning this into a "What does it all mean" or a "Life is...." post(which I am sure will come in the future anyway), I will settle for this post hopefully making you think about simplifying life to make it easier. No, not by buying an iPod or PDA, but just to make you think. Hopefully it did not make anything more complicated with you, so I leave you to think about simplifying, and any good ideas, you know where to stick'em.