Two words which are, in my opinion, very important in human life.
I think we have to be able to live simple, without long kept grudges in our heart or feelings of apathy that are consistently present. A simple life with a simple set of mind. To love what comes your way and to accept the suffering that's on your path of life. Like that, not to forget, but to accept. When accepted something, you'll be able to get past it, to move on. As for discussions and fights, be simple, forgive the other and don't hold a grudge, for you can't ever be the same with that person if you don't make up and forgive (of course you can pretend, but that ruins your sincerity and your simplicity).
As for complexity, which in itself is of course more complex and therefore more difficult to appoint to your life in a single sentence. However, I'll try my best to explain what I think. And that is, that we should be very thoughtful about what we do and what we say. A certain complexity is important. We shouldn't just go about and let our emotions and our desires, our sympathetic and apathetic feelings, our fears and the opinions of the people surrounding us rule our actions.
If all the above should not, what should rule our actions then? you might want to know. Well, (excuse my opinion if yours is different) I think it is your conscience (complexity) and your love(simplicity).
By conscience I mean your sense of right or wrong. Everybody (in general, I'm leaving out the exceptions here) has a conscience that tells him/her what is good to do and what is not. Sometimes it gets difficult to follow your conscience, because you feel you have to do something that you find scary, or that'll hurt your pride, or that you just dislike. When following your conscience, you'll find that it won't tell you
how. E.g. when you need to speak or write to someone for a certain reason, it won't translate the thoughts you want to transfer into words. However, when you do start writing, you will know (through your conscience) whether the sentence you put down will come off the way you planned them to (mostly, because it depends on the other's set of mind too).
By love I mean your sense of appreciation for your surroundings. The people, but also their creations and nature itself. To recognize the wonders that happen everyday under your very nose. To realize what beauty lies in the small things. A cat crawling through high grass, a small boy running in circles, the sound of rain and thunder, a construction worker eating his lunch from a box. It's all nothing out of the ordinary, but in some sense it is special, perhaps even
precious. Just like that, we should simply love, appreciate the world, in my opinion.
As a Christian, it comes natural to love everything, for I believe all is made by God. And if I love God, shouldn't I love everything that has come from His hands as well? I can understand that for non-religious people this is no argument, of course, but if the world is not beautiful and worthy to cherish, can you tell me
one thing that is completely unworthy of appreciation? I can't.
Of course it is rather ridiculous to walk around and stare at the clouds in wonderment, but I think we should not forget what beauty is surrounding us every day.
I see it like this. When you have a good friend, you won't go about telling everyone what great a friend that person is, and neither would you watch that friend in amazement from day to day. No, you don't do that with a friend. You take care of your friend, adore your friend, you like all the good qualities and accept all the flaws. And once in a while you think back of your friendship with that person and be thankful for everything. All the while you haven't forgotten to appreciate your good relationship. That is how it should be with friends, but also with the rest of the world.
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^-^ Quite a long piece of mind. x] I got inspired by a book called "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", written by Muriël Barbery. It is translated from French by Alison Anderson. Barbery has used lots of philosophy in her book. "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is mostly consistent of conversations and thoughts within the main characters about art, intelligence and life in general. If you want to read something that is more than a story, something that brings you a different and refreshing look on life (and a good laugh once in a while!), I definitely recommend this book to you! =]
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*~Maria
