Simplicity is not Normality

Simplicity is no longer the norm in modern day America I'm afraid. In fact, it could be easily said that the more "simple" we try to make our lives the more complicated those very "simple" devices make our lives. For example, just the other day I saw this commercial for a hands free electric can opener! Remarkable! We can now open cans without the mess of having to hold them. The problem is... you have to have batteries! Everything today requires batteries! At least gaming companies got smart and have now started making our handheld rechargeable. I bet my dad spent a fortune in AA batteries for my game-boys as a kid. Which I still am by the way... I still have the latest in Nintendo gaming devices.

I read a book the other day that was basically set after civilization as we know it was destroyed. None of the survivors knew how to make anything! Think about it.. if every person who could build a car were to suddenly disappear where would that leave us? Would we be smart enough to figure out how to develop another car? What about electricity? We would no longer be able to switch on a light switch and I have no clue how to make candles or what goes in homemade wax so how would I light a candle? Even if I had a candle what if there were no matches? Every activity in my life is controlled by something that I personally have no control over! This computer is a device that I couldn't make! So if everyone who knew how this blasted thing worked died then I would have no computer! AGHHH! See how very complicated our simple lives are??

Furthermore...
I don't know how to build a fire by hand, nor do I know the complexities of indoor plumbing. I couldn't milk a cow without first getting mowed over first because I've never done it. I've never made dough from scratch without first having the necessary ingredients there. The more I think about it the more I realize how very little I really know. I couldn't build a snare for food since I've never done that sort of thing.. and no matter how badly you think of me right now while you're reading this there is this one point I would like to make. How simple are our lives? We have pre-made everything! I can go to the store and buy cookies that I just plop on a sheet and stick in the oven... where is the memory making in that???!!! OH look grandma I made these homemade for you.. all I did was buy them pre-made and pop them in the oven for about twenty minutes... where's the true giving spirit if it's really not that much to give?
Gifts that have little time spent on them mean little to you as the giver.... Sigh...
I'm just so tired of all the simple things really not being that simple.... I can't even speak Latin, French or German fluently.. that used to be something that was normal... now that's like a gift if you can speak more than one language....

Simplicity... is it really present in our lives today? Normality surely isn't... it can't be normal to spend half of our time running from one place to the next and only accomplishing minuscule amounts of tasks. I know that being in college surely has changed my view on how I spend my time.. those uh... observations have yet to be put into practice in my home life. Yet, I endeavor... will I ever achieve simplicity? Probably not until I either die or retire...

Life's Mysteries

Have I erred? I hate when something so simple escalates into a huge mess. My life is just riddled with these types of situations though. I have tasted the bitter pill of disappointment once more, and I've decided that I do not like it one bit. I thought I had figured out a situation and that I would not have to swallow a bitter pill, but I was wrong. Sigh...

Well.. on a brighter note...

It's raining. I know that sounds a bit sarcastic, but it's the honest to goodness truth. I love that it's raining.. It's a reflection of how I feel currently. A little upset so it rains hard... a little tired so it drops off... and every once in a while a cloud will part and the sun will peek through and that is the sunshine that brightens my day... Like pretending to go on a "date" with my four year old brother. He couldn't hold my hand and drive because he might wreck. I love the way a four year old thinks. He kept wanting a bear or croc to eat me. I told him he wasn't a very good boyfriend.

I believe that when I titled this entry as Life's Mysteries... I am referring to the fact that I am once again feeling bereft, alone, and drifting. The mysterious part of this is that I talk to a friend daily and I have five other siblings who are constantly demanding my attention. I hate that I feel so self centered... but currently that's about all I can think of. How alone I feel. Hopefully the Lord will give me a good chastening or shock or something and get me back on track. I have a feeling though that He's wanting me to learn on my own and get back on track through disciplining myself. Who knows? Certainly not me...

Why Clean?

I say that cycles are meant to be broken! I have cleaned this wretched kitchen for the last time! NO longer will I toil in this environment attempting to rectify the obvious chaos caused by those midgets I call siblings. I have had it!!!

Okay,
Let's contemplate the consequences of our actions shall we...? I must say I have tried procrastinating on more than one occasion, but if I were to attempt it again in this instance the very binding on my family would unravel. I suppose that if I were to abstain from cleaning, then the entire hierarchy would dissipate. I would have a depressed mother, a disgusted father, an upset overworked younger brother and a host of little munchkins trying to add to the friction that would ensue from this catastrophe!!!

So... I'll clean the kitchen.... *Sigh* I love when I solve my own cases... I think.