Simplicity - and when did that became a curse?

Simplicity - and when did that became a curse?

  Homo sapiens, supposingly the most intelligent species on this planet. Now there's something to question and argue about, and personally I highly doubt that.
But this time I concentrate to one thing, that being the word " simple".
At what point this became more a curse than a good thing?
Why do we make everything so complicated, when it all really could be just easy and simple?
Is there something fundamentally wrong about it, if one wants to have a simple life?? No drama, no bullshit, no nonsense, just plain simple.
Why do we do things hard way, if we can find an alternative to that, the easier way?
Are we worried, that we don't learn the life's important lessons, if we keep our own lives too simple, if we don't suffer enough to get what we want etc...??
If something is achieved with less effort and pain, is that less valued among others?

We are a very odd species, that is for sure, no doubt about it.
I have couple good examples to shine some light to this whole thing I'm on about.

Relationships - I'm a single myself, have been that a good 6 years, and enjoying it a lot, since for me being on my own is not a misery or something to get rid off.
However, I have had an opportunity to follow fairly closely this today's single life and datings and putting yourself out there.
And let me tell you this boys and girls, things have changed a lot while I was married, and not for the better...hell no ....quite the contrary...

What a circus it is nowadays, so many rules and so many hidden rules, it's like a freaking rocket science, that's what it is.
And when social media took part on this dating market with all the different groups and internet dating pages, then it really exploded...
I mean ..seriously....how the heck our parents and grandparents ever found their loved ones, they didn't have all these helpful internet appliances for that.😉?
How did they ever became from single to married, or got themselves to a date, no tinder or anything during those times????
I miss those times, that simplicity, it wasn't so complicated back then...or was it?
So back to the recent time....why do we make everything so hard? Even meeting new people? Going out for a simple date nowadays seem to require more preparations than getting ready to presidential debate on tv ( well....it depends of the candidate😄).
The whole thing is analyzed to bits before the date has actually even picked you up.
In parades the what if's and should I and could I etc....
And you can consider yourself lucky to get to that point in the first place, going out on a date that is.
The process starts way before that..the oh so familiar analyzing.
It starts there on the internet....the meat-market, where everyone is putting themselves with a brave smile and hoping to find that famous soulmate..
And everybody says that they don't have any list of criterias, but after listening/reading a bit more, the list of criterias have appeared and is not that short after all...
Well....could we just forget all those lists and meet new people with curiosity and open minds? Keep it simple, it can't possible get any worse than it already is...

Now back to that other example....
I know, that is a juicy topic we just talked about earlier, and I will get back to it another time.

Simple life...
If you don't enjoy digging on the garden, why buy a house? If you like less cleaning, and you don't own a car, you don't like that gardening, then the only thing that make sense, is to live in a apartment building close enough to town and its services.
What is wrong with that?? Absolutely nothing!!!! It is a choice, just as much as living on a town house or in the farm, they are all choices made by individuals by their own likings.
None of them are better than the other, they are different, that's all.
Maybe living in the city on that apartment is easier many ways, but so what??? It is a choice open to anybody, who wants to live like that.

There is nothing wrong to live a simple life, to simplify things. Not everything in life has to be a struggle, there is plenty of that in store anyways..for all of us....
So what's the harm, if you relax a little, ease things up, cut back someworkload where you can, so you have time to smell the roses??

Let's keep it simple ❤