Simplicity

​Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure
~Henry David Thoreau

​Being simple is being smart.  In the chapter, "Seek & Live a Better Life," in the book, Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, he expresses how living simpler is more valuable than living how you are "supposed to live."  Thoreau express pity on the men who live life like the rest, and praises the children and nature who live life the way they want too. I opened the zipper of my back pack, and reached in to find my iPad.  I felt the smooth black case and pulled it out.  I walked to the couch and opened the book. The night time darkness fell upon me as I began to read.  I was ready to read one of Thoreau's magnificent chapters.

As I read, I began to think.  The words had so much meaning, it was almost impossible to get what Thoreau was trying to say in one time.  I re-read the chapter, and it began to make so much sense.  When Thoreau says, “let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry- determined to make a day of it,” I realized that he meant: let events happen, do not try to stop things, keep it simple, and you will truly realize what occurs.

The chapter finished, my brain was filled with thoughts.  The two paragraph chapter seemed like a book of knowledge. Each line having so much power.  The most important lesson I learned is that you can not truly experience something if you try to change it.  Like Nature, try to listen, taste, smell, and touch the beauty around you, but never disturb it.

Live simpler, and you will live right.