In these days of increasing information, and the sharing of that information complexity continues to creep into many facets of our lives. I sense it as a wound that is festering and about to suppurate (a pimple about to pop, a volcano about to erupt…get the picture!?).
It is like a giant fungus, that, for the most part, lives under the surface of the earth and pops up in various forms, some of them beautiful, and some of them not. Most people are aware of the above the surface information because they see it and hear it regularly if they are living the average North American life. Many of those people are mostly oblivious to the subsurface roots of the tangled web that has been woven, but their hearts and souls are very aware of the dissipation of our life energy as it attends to all the daily necessities of living the ways that we currently do. Record numbers of people suffer from fatigue, depression, and non-specific ill health syndromes. Is this the manifestation of the draining away of our life energy?
Think about the last time that you shopped for a new appliance or technical device – how much time and energy did this take? And after the shopping and purchase of said item how long did that item actually last, before you had to repeat the process to replace the planned obsolete one? Are you starting to understand that you might be a consumer rat on a wheel?
I guess I am writing this blog entry today to remind you that you can make different choices and you can reject complexity. Learn how to say NO, and look around you and ask yourself regularly do I need it? Many years ago I developed a very simple screening system to help me make decisions. I simply ask myself will this simplify my life or complicate it?
If you are a complexity junkie you may have to work at getting off the stuff
if you come to realize that you do need to live differently. I think the current global economic, environmental, emotional and spiritual situation is crying out for simplicity and I think it is time to stop covering up this wound with bandages and
get to the root of the problem by gathering and reconnecting with the discipline that will allow you to feel your feelings, stay with them, feel them, and say no when you need to.
It is like a giant fungus, that, for the most part, lives under the surface of the earth and pops up in various forms, some of them beautiful, and some of them not. Most people are aware of the above the surface information because they see it and hear it regularly if they are living the average North American life. Many of those people are mostly oblivious to the subsurface roots of the tangled web that has been woven, but their hearts and souls are very aware of the dissipation of our life energy as it attends to all the daily necessities of living the ways that we currently do. Record numbers of people suffer from fatigue, depression, and non-specific ill health syndromes. Is this the manifestation of the draining away of our life energy?
Think about the last time that you shopped for a new appliance or technical device – how much time and energy did this take? And after the shopping and purchase of said item how long did that item actually last, before you had to repeat the process to replace the planned obsolete one? Are you starting to understand that you might be a consumer rat on a wheel?
I guess I am writing this blog entry today to remind you that you can make different choices and you can reject complexity. Learn how to say NO, and look around you and ask yourself regularly do I need it? Many years ago I developed a very simple screening system to help me make decisions. I simply ask myself will this simplify my life or complicate it?
If you are a complexity junkie you may have to work at getting off the stuff
if you come to realize that you do need to live differently. I think the current global economic, environmental, emotional and spiritual situation is crying out for simplicity and I think it is time to stop covering up this wound with bandages and
get to the root of the problem by gathering and reconnecting with the discipline that will allow you to feel your feelings, stay with them, feel them, and say no when you need to.
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