The Simple Life

from The Tao Te Ching The Tao Te Ching can be helpful to all, and the reading of it may be enlightening. Reading the Tao can give much insight on the challenges and dangers that humans must face in this world, how a person should live his life, the dangers of a powerful ruler, how the state should rule, how citizens should serve the state, and the messages or forewarnings for us today. Mankind has the tendency to be self-conscious, greedy, and materialistic, and human history shows this

Much of life is over thought and overlooked. Society has pushed humans to care about everything in the world, rather than what is actually important. People do not stop and smell the roses anymore, instead people scroll, click, and tap away much of their lives. Fortunately, when people do stop caring about irrelevant big ideas and being caring about the little things, people begin to see things from a new light. Many authors, such as Virginia Woolf, have help remind humans to stop and appreciate

towards the moths drive through her comparisons and simple sentences. The sheer simplicity of the moth’s drive invoked admiration and envy in Woolf, yet at the same time, pity, for its simplicity. No one really looks at a moth and can tell if it is happy or sad. The only thing that someone could possibly identify is if the moth wants to live or not. Virginia Woolf, while watching the moth, saw that, “It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down

brother and sister, annoyed at their siblings, notice a complete change in their bond that provides a feeling of love and comfort. The struggling family unites as one and tries to fight for their lives as the nuclear gas is fighting them. A simple life in this simple town was easy. Marylyn and Bobby, the children’s parents, had spent the warm, summer day inside. They were listening to The Mills Brothers on the brown radio with the perfect sound and crispy crackles of the station. They were talking about

deliberately, simplicity, and individualism. Having a simple life is one of the transcendental beliefs Chris is trying to follow. An example of this is when Krakauer says, “Alex insisted on giving Gallien his watch, his comb, and what he said was all his money: eighty-five cents in loose change” (Krakauer 7). This shows that Alex, aka Chris, wants to give all of his belongings away to live a more simple life. Chris obviously gets the idea of a simple life from Henry David Thoreau who preaches simplicity

Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood deals with the simplicity of life, stressing the importance of "each cobble, donkey, [and] goose"; we must rejoice in the simple aspects of life which ultimately make it so wonderful. There are many characters in the play who would attempt to hide from reality behind their "germ-free blinds" and "sealed window[s]", consuming themselves with insipid activities which do not bring the joy of the "spring sun" into their lives. Thomas' treats these characters with humour

Simplicity can be observed throughout daily life. While easier to see in some cultures, daily life in Igbo culture is more simple than other cultures. The Igbo culture shows simplicity through the many traditions and customs in their culture. In the novel Things Fall Apart and research on the modern-day Igbo people reveals similarities between how simple the culture was originally, and how the culture continues to show that today. First off, like other cultures, the culture is full of ideas and

Transcendentalism. In the movie Into the Wild, a character named Chris McCandless’s tries to relate his life to the tenets of Transcendentalism throughout the movie. Chris decides to leave the society and tries to live his life in the wild. Chris relies on nature to help him survive in the wild. Chris tries to live a different life from the people in the society, and lives the life, as the way he wants to live his life. In the movie Into the Wild by Sean Penn, Penn shows Chris McCandless with the belief of being

and What I Lived For,” Thoreau claims that life is not about materialistic things, but about being simple. He supports his thesis by comparing an example of how life is supposed to be lived, beside how life is not supposed to be lived, and then contrasting both outcomes. He reveals the truths of each example; then he compares materialistic and simplicity examples in order to prove that materialistic things get men nowhere in life contrast to what being simple leads to ( simplicity leads to a strong

of the “loss of sovereignty”. Du Bois strongly believes that with the help of experts, people can then learn what they need to get ahead in life.