Simplicity

"Simplicity is not an alternative life style for a marginal few. It is a choice for the mainstream majority, particularly in developed nations." -Sophisticated Simplicity. You may be asking yourself, Why would I want to know this or What does this mean? Simple, it means that everyone should live simply. Simplicity should be a lifestyle for the majority of people. Unfortunately though, it isn't.

Most people don't even know why simplicity is so important. And those people are the ones who are ignorant of how much money they are spending on things they don't need and will probably rarely use. Simplicity is important. It keeps us focused on what needs to be done, not what we want to get done. Personally, I have found it very hard to get something done when there is a television on. A television is definitely not an necessity.

To me, simplicity means only having what you need, and not going out every month to get the new thing that everyone has. Simplicity is really important to me because I don't think that you need the new thing of everything. I don't think that everyone needs to have the same things, because how do you show who you are if you have the same phone, and the same laptop, and the same iPod.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not. When I came to the woods to die, discover that I had not lived.”

                                                                                      -Thoreau