Keep it Simple Silly!!

My recent visit to Jaipur was a growing experience. Like seen in many north indian states, there is a rising increase in the need to match up to the societal levels and having an extravagant life, where the basic qualities of a person gets hidden and it deteriorates his/her inner beauty.

No wonder how, despite the societal advancements, the lives of our generation is much more difficult than that of our parents or grandparents. Its surprising how our older generations, lived a comparably more easy life despite having much more members of family and dependants.

Where, some blame the rising prices with Inflation, while a few blame competition and a thrive to succeed within everyone. Some think of corruption being the biggest cause, while the others think of the growing luxuries and needs as the reason for these difficulties. The reasons by different people could be many.

I personally think we ourselves are to be blamed for making our lives as difficult as they have become. The more we strive to make it easy, ironically the mind plays such a game with us that the more difficult it becomes.

In my opinion, the biggest reason for this condition is Lack of Simplicity. As we are moving ahead and progressing along with changing times, the simplicity in our lives is fading away. A simple example of mine could explain my opinion better. In our days hard work, we work tirelessly to be capable enough to meet our needs, mostly which are materialistic, we often forget or miss to spending quality times with our near and dear ones.

Our endless desires of wanting to wear the most expensive clothes, have the most high income job, own the best of cars, et all, make our lives difficult as we get stuck in our limitations, and mostly tend to forget to ensure the happiness or even get a smile on the faces of our family, especially parents.

In order to run ahead of time and at par with the rest of the world, the crux of our inherent personality often goes missing as we become part of the crowd, instead of standing apart.
I believe, leading a simple life is the cheapest and best way to live a happy life, however in the current scenario of the society, its definitely not the easiest.

By this I by no means mean that we should not enjoy the benefits of faciltites available to us or be non- ambitious in life. Being an extremely ambitious girl myself, such an idea would never strike to my mind also.

Being simple, to me would mean minimizing one's own needs and in noway would mean restricting yourself from growing. The difference between keeping spiritual growth above materialistic growth must be clearly understood. A spiritual growth is the growth of a person in the real sense and helps in moving ahead clearly in the long run. Simplicity calls for a simple thinking which asks for working towards living a balanced and comfortable life and not running unnecessary towards infinite power, fame or luxuries.

What one must understand is that there is no dearth to the needs of a human being. The resources to meet these needs are available in plenty today. The mind can be programmed in both ways, to be simple or not.

Only a simple and satisfied mind remains focussed and positive and survives successfully in the long run. The best of politicians and leaders of our country like Gandhiji, Nehru ji, APJ Abdul Kalam, Manmohan Singh and many others have carved a niche for themselves but their charisma is inspiring mostly because of their simplicity which also helps them stand apart.
Its an age old way of ideal living, of 'Simple living, High thinking'! Therefore, we must try and keep our thoughts high, different and broad but our lives as simple as we can. A simple life makes life so much more easier and happier.

So, Keep it Simple silly! :)

Love
Nikita