Fritter Away
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify .
Thoreau said, "Our lives are frittered away by details...simplify, simplify" meaning that people are concerned too much by insignificant things and not those that are truly important. He wrote, "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." This quote gives us a bigger idea of living our lives and simplifying each moment to its best.
Observing carefully the lifestyle of citizens nowadays, it has been very rightly quoted by Hendry David Thoreau. Nowadays individuals complicate their lives to the point that they are stressed out, dissatisfied, and unhappy. By this thought , he gives us a new way of looking at our lives and advices us to accept life as it comes our way and live each moment to its fullest instead of cribbing about each detail.He feels , instead of enjoying something, we focus too much on the details. We spend most of our time thinking about all the material things and what everyone else thinks when, in actuality, we don't need any of it. All the little details are nothing compared to the whole picture. We spend too much of our lives thinking about the little things that do not make a difference, instead of admiring the whole picture that arises.
Thoreau was interested in living simply, as we noted. "Simplify, simplify, simplify." I think he means it. One aspect of simplification he was adamant about was the issue of material goods, which were just becoming readily accessible and affordable to most people. He advocated living simply by not "cluttering" or complicating one's life by buying goods then working harder to buy even more goods. In other words, we should be in control of our goods and our work-they should not be in control of us. This idea of Thoreau explains very simply, that we should not worry about each small detail in our lives that indeed do not even make a difference
Thoreau said, "Our lives are frittered away by details...simplify, simplify" meaning that people are concerned too much by insignificant things and not those that are truly important. He wrote, "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." This quote gives us a bigger idea of living our lives and simplifying each moment to its best.
Observing carefully the lifestyle of citizens nowadays, it has been very rightly quoted by Hendry David Thoreau. Nowadays individuals complicate their lives to the point that they are stressed out, dissatisfied, and unhappy. By this thought , he gives us a new way of looking at our lives and advices us to accept life as it comes our way and live each moment to its fullest instead of cribbing about each detail.He feels , instead of enjoying something, we focus too much on the details. We spend most of our time thinking about all the material things and what everyone else thinks when, in actuality, we don't need any of it. All the little details are nothing compared to the whole picture. We spend too much of our lives thinking about the little things that do not make a difference, instead of admiring the whole picture that arises.
Thoreau was interested in living simply, as we noted. "Simplify, simplify, simplify." I think he means it. One aspect of simplification he was adamant about was the issue of material goods, which were just becoming readily accessible and affordable to most people. He advocated living simply by not "cluttering" or complicating one's life by buying goods then working harder to buy even more goods. In other words, we should be in control of our goods and our work-they should not be in control of us. This idea of Thoreau explains very simply, that we should not worry about each small detail in our lives that indeed do not even make a difference