thank you

God, for my dad's job and these wonderful people that cared.

simplicity vs. complexity

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.

i just don't understand why humans (and i say that as i am one, at least i think) seem to adore simplicity so much. is it just one of those things that is that much easier to wrap their small head around? ...to attempt to fully "grasp" a subject completely and then feel all well and good about their "accomplishment"? or, something done or liked for conformity in hopes of acceptance? what ignorance on the one hand and {idon'tknowwhat but i don't like it} on the other!

most,if not all, important things are complex (love, life, DNA, technology, the world, etc...let alone God! and the grand scheme of things...) hmm. i mean, God didn't make us all little single-celled organisms, did he? he could have, but he chose to make us wonderfully difficult, or complex. so it seems to me that it should be that way.

when i was younger i remember my sister of two saying "i can DO IT MYself!" all the time to nearly everyone that attempted to help her. no one taught her that, it is just something built into people to want to figure out things. the whole mystery genre started off of this innate desire for complexity: to take a bunch of randomized facts and seemingly arbitrary circumstances and spend time making sense out of them.

so, i guess that's why it bothers me that the famed "keep it simple, stupid." attitude is everywhere. frat boys, ugg boots, minimalism in art, picture perfect people all acting alike! life is not this way! what is this farce?

"but my simplicity i can understand!" maybe we weren't meant to understand. maybe we were meant to be a soul continually widening in awe of maybe, how much we don't know.