Simplicity is the Key

If everyone were to participate in Thoreau's idea, everybody would enjoy their lives that much more. Try to do what he did, live consciously. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately" (The Consiounces Reader, 942). Thoreau planned to live in the woods to learn all it had to offer. He desired to become aware of the world in order to realize he took things for granted. Simplify your life and enrich it with Thoreau's concept.
             Simplify. It is Thoreau's concept that still exists today. Reduce and lighten the load of your work and worries. Don't let your life be controlled by your work, control your work by enjoying your life. Too many people today worry about pointless, insignificant duties that have no regard to their life as a whole. People only care about the task at hand, not about the future. People don't take time to rest or take vacations. "As for work, we haven't any consequence. We have the Saint Vitus" dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still" (The Conscious Reader, 943). Say you work and work for 2 years to get a better job that may last, at the most, 15-20 years. So now you are 45-50 years of age and still have no sense of life. You withered it away with trivial tasks, for 15 years! Lighten the load and good things will come, a long sufficient life. "I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand" (The Conscious Reader, 942). This .
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             concept is true now as it was in when Thoreau wrote it. Simplify, try to lighten the load and reduce your work and you will enjoy a full, exciting life.
             To simplify your life would give you more enjoyment. You can relax and live a long life. Imagine that if one's life was simplified to its smallest form, day after day would be as sweet and fun as a day in an amusement park. You would love every minute of every day. "If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights" Entertainment" (The Conscious Reader, 945).