I am not anything, and
Yet, I am everything.
We are simple creatures, and yet, we complicate our lives. In our own self importance, we glorify and exaggerate the insignificant particulars in life (which remind us we are alive and DO remind us, we are only human). Our ego allows us to believe the complicated is the most likely.
Although hard to heed, take a look at everything around you. Being more aware of those people, situations and things around you, will allow you to be more self aware, and in comparison, happier, or at least more content.
Once you begin to acknowledge and understand everything around you, you may begin to understand your life isn't so complicated nor difficult. It is you that complicates it. Complex needn't be your adjective of choice. The same way, complicated, need not be your way of life.
Please put aside the cliché in the example I am about to give, but, do use it as a core comparison. Thousands of children in some of the poorest parts of the world live without parents, a roof over their heads, without food to eat or even safe drinking water. These people lead complicated lives, complicated that without necessity, they could die. Are the complexities [which you cast upon yourself] killing you? No.
What you hold is perfectly fine, maybe you are just spoilt. Spoilt to such a degree, mollycoddled into such a level of comfort that you forget the basic, fundamental aspects of life. By becoming so entangled in your own bollocks, so far gone in your own egocentric mind - you've lost reality. Even though you believe you are firmly living in it.
I beg you: get a grip, be grateful, stop over-complicating something that could (and should) be very simple, and just be a little happier? A smile in the street or giving way to another car is enough.
By Natasha x
Yet, I am everything.
We are simple creatures, and yet, we complicate our lives. In our own self importance, we glorify and exaggerate the insignificant particulars in life (which remind us we are alive and DO remind us, we are only human). Our ego allows us to believe the complicated is the most likely.
Although hard to heed, take a look at everything around you. Being more aware of those people, situations and things around you, will allow you to be more self aware, and in comparison, happier, or at least more content.
Once you begin to acknowledge and understand everything around you, you may begin to understand your life isn't so complicated nor difficult. It is you that complicates it. Complex needn't be your adjective of choice. The same way, complicated, need not be your way of life.
Please put aside the cliché in the example I am about to give, but, do use it as a core comparison. Thousands of children in some of the poorest parts of the world live without parents, a roof over their heads, without food to eat or even safe drinking water. These people lead complicated lives, complicated that without necessity, they could die. Are the complexities [which you cast upon yourself] killing you? No.
What you hold is perfectly fine, maybe you are just spoilt. Spoilt to such a degree, mollycoddled into such a level of comfort that you forget the basic, fundamental aspects of life. By becoming so entangled in your own bollocks, so far gone in your own egocentric mind - you've lost reality. Even though you believe you are firmly living in it.
I beg you: get a grip, be grateful, stop over-complicating something that could (and should) be very simple, and just be a little happier? A smile in the street or giving way to another car is enough.
By Natasha x
Overall, quite a true and nicely put together rant, I thought. May I ask what the inspiration was? My only thought (which I'm sure you knew was coming) is that I don't know if being content and being happy are synonomous - contentedness is the state of mind where you don't want anything more, while happiness is an emotion. So, while the latter may lead to the former, I'm not sure the reverse holds true, sadly. I do agree (quite stongly) that people need to open their eyes and look around. Maybe that would stop the global frenzy for possession, which would be nice and might remove the reason why a lot of dickheads act the way they do - dunno if it'd make us happier as a species though. Then again, maybe I'm too cynical and you've hit the nail spot on, who knows? Still, nice piece!
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