Every time Colin and I get rid of another box of stuff from our house that
we don’t need or want anymore, I pretend that we get “100 bonus points”.
Clearly a hold over from my video game days. Last night, I was reading an
article about different ways to characterize or categorize simple
living, and realized that we might fit into one of the categories:
“Uncluttered Simplicity: Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is
too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity
means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and
non-material, and focusing on the essentials — whatever those may be for
each of our unique lives. As Thoreau said, “Our life is frittered away by
detail… Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s
own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday
life.”
posted at 12:38 on Tue, 09 Jan, 2007 |
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