KISS

What does that mean? A tender hello, a sweet goodbye? Yes, but not what I mean. This KISS stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. I have used this phrase in my book “To See Or Not To See : Awareness Is The Question”. I devoted a whole chapter to keep it simple. So, lets dive in to at least my perspective and then you can make your own.

Do you watch the world around you? I do. I notice how people act; I notice life moving around me. I notice how many things get missed because people choose to not be aware. So many things passed by and overlooked just from no common sense. It doesn’t seem like rocket science to me, but it might as well be for some. Keep It Simple Stupid is just that, be simple because the concept is so simple and it’s stupid to either overthink something or not see it at all. But I’m sharing with you that this inability to keep it simple takes up so much of people’s lives.

Be kind, be courteous, be respectful, be mindful. That’s just the tip of the iceberg but it’s a good place to start. I don’t understand cruelty. I don’t understand how people can treat people so less than. How people can treat this planet and it’s living life upon it with so disregard. We have really big brains, why are we not mindful of what we do, how we do it, what we think, how we act? I think it’s a flaw in our big brains and we don’t keep things simple. So since one doesn’t want to be simple than I think they are just being stupid. And let me tell you, there is a lot of stupid going around. Stupid at work, stupid with our children, stupid with our neighbor, on an on and on. We don’t wave, we don’t have conversation, we don’t teach, we don’t share.

There is another phrase – live, laugh, love. That seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? So why aren’t so many people living it? Come on, bonk the top of your forehead, say with me I’m so stupid and realize that living a real life full of live laugh love is rather simple. When we live a simple life, all those big problems seem to take on a different understanding and although the complexities are still there, we can say, “hey, it’s simply complicated”, and keep on swimming. Be kind, be patient, be loving and be real to yourself and those around you, it’s simple, the choice is yours. So that’s my KISS to you.