"If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well" --Albert Einstein
The following lines are the opening quotes of the novel, the Stranger, by Albert Camus :
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
And you know what, these lines are considered to be the most powerful opening lines ever..Why ?
I have wondered often - what is it in a rose that it is one of the most beautiful of creations. Simplicity. Yes, the word. It is so beautiful because its so simple.
Same goes for those lines. So simple, yet so powerful...
All the woes in the world are because humans unnecessarily complicate and enmesh the simplest of things. Well, its in human's nature to complicate. Politics is based on it, science is based on it, everything human does is basically to complicate things. Watch the nature. There is so much discipline. The sun always rises from the east, and always sets in the west. Even if a slightest complication were to arise in nature's ways, chaos would prevail.
We are able to live, because the mother earth is simple in its ways...simply revolving round the sun for thousands of years. What happens if this simplicity is broken...What happens when the earth, once in a blue moon, strays from keeping it simple ? And shakes a bit....
Well, it shakes everything. It shakes the birds. The animals. Our conscience. The way we percieve. In a nutshell, our lives...
So why don't our politicians dont understand. Why do religious fanatics complicate, and kill, in the name of religion...I always wonder what would the world be like....if simplicity prevailed....
Definitely a better world indeed....
beautifully present but in a simple lines :) good effort
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ReplyDeleteLOL! i encountered the word 'enmesh' and started thinking that this guy is now gonna overload my mind with his vocab and i am gonna sit here like a dumb.. well thought a little less than that :D anyway , Nice . I would like to add , though a bit late , but The nature has a tendency for Equilibrium, remember the Le-Chatelier's principle, well , I believe , we humans have accepted a role, like an uninvited guest, in shifting the equilibrium from one side to other , and we are doing the job pretty Well !!
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