“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo da Vinci
Thank you Leo. I have come to a new struggle in life, and as it takes struggle to be out of struggle, I must enter it willingly.
I am, as most of us are, surrounded by constant movement of humans desperately aspiring to achieve success, money, position, fame, things. I feel my world is being quite raped by advancing technology - I watch simplicity as it slips further and further from my grasping fingers - our society does not love her much.
When did the world become filled with desire for so many foolish pursuits? Why is self elevation one of our most strived for occupations, especially when disguised so delicately in various forms of cultural acceptance.
These are the days I long for the prairies. For walks in vast golden fields, for listening to owls, for sitting in trees watching stars. For friends in oversized coats, for no stores, for one stop sign, for space, for silence. I forgot these precious features made up my reality.
I must enter willingly, knowing that there are many realities - I've lived in them. So, I struggle to be simple. To wrap myself in loving values. To breathe, and be free.
"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them." ~Sherwood Anderson
2 years ago
