Simplicity

My friend Von will be showing up a lot here. He is one of my closest friends, and I learn so much from him.  Lately, the best lesson I have learned from him is the lesson of simplicity.  I have always thought that the little things in life are the most important, but he brings a whole new outlook to it.  It is not just an act of appreciating the little things, but not sweating the big things.  Things that have already happened, like fights already fought, won or lost, tests failed, meetings missed, speeding tickets.  That in the grand scheme of life, these things don't matter too much.  Certainly, they can, but mostly, I have learned that life would not be life if we did not mess up every once in a while, but we cannot let our mistakes define who we are, or who we will be.  Taking each day as it comes is the best way to live simply.  Today when I woke up, I decided my goals for the day were to do the best I could in class, enjoy the sunshine, and be thankful for everything.  It as a simple list of simple tasks, and now I can successfully check all of those off.  Tomorrow I will make another list, with new goals, but I will not worry about that until I wake up. There are lots of ideas out there about how to live a simpler life, but the idea of exploring simplicity in a deeper sense seems a little counter-productive to me, so I will end this post here, with the promise of further exploration of other ideas later!