Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Life: Simple or Complex


Life has no meaning when you arrive into this world . However, your education and upbringing gives you ideas to create a purpose or meaning to your life. It is entirely up to you on what you want to do with your life. Ideally, you should aim to be useful to your family and society in someway or other.

Life is complex because you have to deal with money issues, family issues, health issues, friends issues, relationship issues, crime, death, negative emotions, etc.

Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad. Some happy and some exciting. But if you never turn the book, you'll never know what the next chapter holds.

No matter how sad or how happy you feel about the things in your life, it’s all temporary. Life is always like a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey.

No matter how hard life gets, it never stops existing our loved ones leave us, there are so many leaving the world every day, but LIFE ALWAYS GOES ON…

Life is as simple or complex as you want it to be.


It is our perspective that makes it seem what it is. The choices which we make at each step in our life determine the “complexity” of our life.

You think about all the issues that you’re going through and… bamm.. life will seem much more frustrating and lonely! You get rid of everything and just focus on your objective and everything will appear to be much simpler!

We have to enjoy and live our life like a kid and we should use our maturity wherever it needs. Choose happiness instead of keeping on worrying. Our option decides the life's complexity.

“ Live your life you love, love your life you live”

Choose Happiness!

Essentially life is simple, it is the importance that we give to the non-essential parts that makes it complex!

We make it complex by measuring our lives against others rather than following our inner voice. We've all been blessed with an innate sense of what is right and true for us to do. What paths we need to follow. The challenges come when we face a choice in paths where the right one is harder than the wrong one. That's when faith must lead. Following the voice within that speaks to the truth of the matter despite the fears. Take the step through the terror and find the reward and the joy.

Life is as simple or complex as you make it.


A story I read on Facebook, I think it, tells of an executive who is taking a vacation at the beach. He sees a guy who comes in the morning, surfs, while he's there he helps people with their boards and technique, making enough money to get dinner and spend the night singing and partying. The exec sees the guy has a home made board wax that everyone loves.

The exec talks to the guy about how he can start to market it beyond the one beach he's on, selling it up and down the coast. The guy nods and smiles. Then if we work hard, we build the business to other coasts. The guy nods and smiles. Then in a couple years of work, we can go international, making money from all over the world. You'd be rich.

The guy asks, “Then what do I do?” The ad exec says, “You can retire, live on the beach and enjoy your life.” The guys says, “I'm already doing that, man.” Grabs his bag and board and smiles and waves as he heads for the night's party.

Make life as simple as you can and start enjoying it now, not having to wait until you retire.

Life is utterly simple and yet most complex:


You have to simultaneously attend to both facets of life. When life appears most complex, turn to the simplicity. Simplicity brings peace. When you are peaceful, attend to the complexity within you. That will make you more skilful. If you are only with simplicity, it makes you lazy and dull. Being only with complexity makes you angry and frustrated. The intelligent ones balance them and rejoice in both. If you look only to simplicity, growth is not there. Looking only at the complexity, there is no life at all. All that you need is a skilful balance. If you recognize both simplicity and complexity of life, you will be skilfully peaceful! Colors are the complexity of life. White is the simplicity. When your heart is pure, your life becomes so colorful.

Read this conversation between a student and his teacher (guruji).

Arjun: Guruji, you are all white and yet so colorful.

Guruji: Like our knowledge, which is so profound and yet so simple!

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Oscar Wilde

Life’s simple!

We’ve got to ask. “What’s simple?” Here’s a little list of things everyone should know—

Simple is to love, and do what you like
Simple is doing your best and somebody might like it
Simple is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple. And the simple thing to do is the right thing
Simple is putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk
Simple is an exact medium between too little and too much
Simple is making the journey of life with just enough baggage
Simple is like white light — complex, but the complexity doesn’t have to be obvious
Simple is keeping a lamp burning, but to do that, keep putting oil in it
Simple is first saying to yourself what you would be—and then doing what you have to do
Simple is like walking. If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don’t wobble
Simple starts by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you’re doing the impossible
Simple is success—and success is this simple—do what’s right, the right way, at the right time
Simple is obvious. But simple is never known until somebody says it simply
Simple is not asking do-ers to dial for dollars. It’s seeing people and saying, “You look like you know what you’re doing. Can I hang around with you?”
Simple is the ultimate sophistication

Here is a true story about bread and fish.

A young minister was preaching his very first sermon. But nervousness got the better of him and—to his great embarrassment—he actually heard himself saying, “And five were fed with 5,000 loaves and 2,000 fishes,” as an example of miracles.

“Some miracle,” Mr. Brown criticized loudly from his seat. “Anybody could do that!”

The following Sunday, the young minister spoke again on miracles in his sermon. This time he offered the correct example: “And they fed 5,000 people on five loaves of bread and two fishes.” Afterwards he looked toward the congregation and asked, “Who among you could do such a thing?”

All eyes turned to Mr. Brown who piped up, “I could!”

“How? How could you feed 5,000?” questioned the minister.

“I’d use what was left over from last Sunday!”

In Mathematics, any ‘complex’ number is generally represented as a+ib, where ‘a’ is the ‘real’ part and ‘b’ is the ‘imaginary’ part.

So,unless you add a imaginary part the number is a ‘simple’ real number .

Similarly Life is always ‘Simple’ unless you imagine(added ‘imaginary’ part) it is ‘Complex’.

Another story on buying a mouse pad to clarify this:

I wanted to buy a Mouse Pad for my new laptop. I went to some shabby low cost shop to buy my dream Mouse Pad. I was having fair idea about what I needed and how it should be. So my selection and shopping was to be simple.

After gripping the pad, the seller has offered me low cost gaming CD. The game was well known but at a dirt cheap price. So I grabbed it. I wanted to buy mouse pad. But now I bring gaming CD and ALSO a mouse pad.

I have mustered all my technical skills to install the CD. Somehow it installed. But actually it was either not compatible with my computer or my computer has relatively low technical specifications. So I was not able to play right away. Now, as the game was apparently installed but I was not able to play so I become more frustrated and trying all my means to get success in my gaming mission. I spent whole evening and next day to figure out the real issue with full of frustration. I even was not looking at the mouse pad which I bought and it was perfect for my use. Thus I made my life complex.

Life is neither complex or simple it just is.

Life is as complicated as it needs to be to exist, no more, no less.

Reality always wins, it cannot be denied or explained away, this includes life.

To humans life only appears overly complex because in the end no human is capable of fully understanding it. This is because humans in the grand scheme have limited intelligence. The all encompassing scientific model of the physical world is far to complex for any human to ever completely understand. This includes the present and the future.

People may delude themselves into believing they know everything about life, this delusion is often a coping mechanism. This probably includes some religious people as the notion of God sometimes creates the illusion of understanding. "Knowing" God should never imply you know everything despite what people may claim when acting on "behalf" of God.

A reasonable course for many people is to simply live with the knowledge that full understanding of life will always remain unachievable. Understand what you can and have a reasonable expectation with regards to the limits of your knowledge.

In the end this is a often very pragmatic and wise decision.

Life is very simple if one is ready to escape from this cage of useless desires. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life will reduce by itself.

What's your say? Do you think life is essentially simple or complex?

Be Simple, Live Simple.

Stop Cribbing - Stop spreading guilt and pain.

Enjoy & Cherish Life.

Live, Love, Lead, Learn, Leave a Legacy.

Happiness Humesha!

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