NATIONAL SIMPLICITY DAY - JULY 12

A sheer coincidence, this morning, that I came across the above picture message by Donella Meadows, American environmentalist who left us prematurely in 2001...

Rabindranath Tagore had said, “It is simple to be happy, but it is difficult to be simple", and in my opinion that would remain an evergreen quote standing the tests of all times...

National Simplicity Day is observed in honour of Henry David Thoreau, an American author, environmentalist, philosopher, naturalist, poet, historian, surveyor, and transcendentalist, born this day in 1817...

The theme for 2024 is -
"Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities."

Research in psychology states that human thoughts tend towards the side of simplicity, our nervous system preferring order to chaos. However, the complicated world that we now live in, with the several gadgets and the emerging AI, peace and quiet are quite likely to just vanish away...

A staunch advocate of simple living, Thoreau's most popular book "Walden" is a narration of two years of his life in the woods in Massachusetts, in semi-isolation amidst nature. It tells us to step back and simplify life in order to savour each day, and try opting for 'minimalism.'...

While simplicity is the quality of being uncomplicated, and simple living is surviving with bare necessities, minimalism is usage of the most simple patterns and things to create maximum effect, as practiced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a German architect who is referred to as the Father of Minimalism...

The concept of 'simple living and high thinking' perhaps dawns upon us a little late, the exact age being a variable. A virtue promoting peace and self appreciation, simplicity differentiates between necessity and abundancy, and aids in cutting off excess. Minimalism is a way of life, a choice that one happily makes, to live with the minimum to get the maximum possible...

"As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

           ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

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