Saturday, March 25, 2006

Simplicity


Today at work I had a customer tell me that she did not know me, had never met me before, but she decided that she liked me. She told me she could see I had a great attitude. I smiled, thanked her and cleared another table. What propels a person to make such a statement? These words she said meant nothing really and if she had not said them, no one would have noticed. Now I have a story and her words have been caught - captured in my brain and they are evolving even now that I type them. Is this what it means when people say that simple pleasures are more rewarding?

The "simple theory" is an ongoing arguement I have with many an adversary. I refute that simple is an opposite of complex and demand that complex not mean complicated. This arguement for me cannot be described in words. Pictures can say a thousand words and this makes it complex. And further still, I have been developing an emotional content in my developments of theories and ideas. This language of description thus becomes more multi-layered than I can comprehend. So I give you a picture and will call it "Incredibly Complex Simplicity".

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