Simplicity Underrated

We find many people, concepts, problems and world complicated or over complicated. We find each person as UN-UNDERSTANDABLE being, we find every concept as bias and we even don’t understand ourselves. No one has a level of simplicity inside them; people complicate themselves too much and remain “UN-SIMPLE”.

Why is that? and What is simplicity?

Simplicity is understanding, people, concepts, world and even we in the simplest form by not making it over-complicated. Simplicity is remaining attached to the truth. It is remaining attached to the real world. How can person understand everything in a simplest form? How is that at all, possible? It is possible, by eradicating over complicity. Whenever we come across a problem, we always ask hard questions or difficult questions and make it more complicated. When I first read price determination in a market, I did not understand it. In that, only price changes and all the determinants of supply and demand remained constant. Why? I asked but I made it more complicated, why in microeconomics things remain constant and only price changes? It is very illogical. Then I read demand, in law of demand Alfred Marshal, assumes that every determinant of demand is constant and only price changes. It is Illogical and irrational, Alfred marshal is mad. How does a person’s demand is related to only price? I told to myself. Then I thought about it, and then I understood that Alfred Marshall showed the law in the simplest way, he remained concerned with price, only because price is the only determinant of  both consumers and suppliers, both can relate to it. God Wow!!!!!

We remain UN-SIMPLE because we ask complicated questions in the beginning without even understanding simplest questions. We have to understand, people, concepts, problems and events in the simplest form and then no matter how hard we try we cannot complicate it. The thing is to start asking simple questions and find the truth and try to make it complicated but it remains simple. We can also apply this in our lives. A friend of mine, not to mention his name, he is so obsessive over his dressing sense, looks and personality, so he complicates himself by taking other’s opinion about him, ‘Does this shirt look short’ he asks and I reply, ‘No’ and he doesn’t believe it. In his mind, he had made himself complicated, caring too much about his looks, dressing sense and personality. If he had asked simple questions regarding his style and personality and if he had understood it in simple form then he would not care too much.

In today’s technological and scientific world, logic, reason and intelligence is very overrated and wisdom, intuition and understanding are underrated. I always used to show myself as the smartest person in the room, then I made very less friends, then one day , I remained simple, or say stupid, remaining stupid is simple to me. I made my friends laugh and made another more friends. If we have to understand ourselves or anything at a deeper level, we have to start asking simpler questions, and understanding them, the more complicated we make it, the UN-SIMPLE it gets. Try it, because I had, and I am still trying to maintain my simplicity.

Shaikh Ashraf.

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