Simply Simplify

Quote: Our lives are frittered away by detail…I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on a thumbnail…Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and resuce other things in proportion. Let us spend everyday as deliberately as nature, and not be thrown off thrack by evry nutshell and mospquito’s wing that falls on the rails.”

Henry David Thoreau

And this was written when times were supposedly simple. I wonder what Mr. Thoreau would think of the gluttonous world of today—our bulging tummies, spacious homes, our crowded experiences, and our inflated bank accounts. We are a people consumed by our wealth, power, and possessions. And to what end? We are like undisciplined children parading in front of a smorgasbord. We want to sample everything and thus fill our plates to overflowing. We force feed ourselves with all the varieties and wonder by our bellies ach when we have filled ourselves beyond capacity. Would the wise man keep his choices to a few and enjoy them all?