but it's not that easy! except that it is, it really is that easy

 In my previous post about meaning I wrote:

Maybe it is our doom as a humankind, this indomitable urge to keep looking for meaning everywhere. Instead of that, we should simply read Tarkovsky's words one hundred, one thousand, one million times and focus on experiencing things. Because even though things can be as deep as we want them to be, we need to realize that our lust for meaning is not everything that there is.

 And today I come with another post about the excess and the over-complication we brought upon ourselves.

One of my biggest conclusions I reached in 2024 was that nowadays we really do tend to over-complicate things. We live in this endless stream of information that doesn't allow us to rest, not even for a minute. I think that is the root of that problem. I couldn't start with my lifting trainings for many weeks because I was caught up in this vicious cycle of researching routines, exercises, different diets, personal trainers, yadda, yadda, yadda. I didn't know that all it really took was to choose any routine, and just get started. I didn't want to face the fact that I already knew the solution and that was to simply start. Because, breaking news, you don't need all the information to start. It is impossible. You always learn along the way, and that sort of knowledge is way more valuable that anything you could read before. Theory has no use without practice. You don't need an elaborate training routine, with a super complicated diet when you are starting exercising because the only thing it will achieve is to make you exhausted before even lifting anything. 

The same goes with other routines. Internet looves self-care, doesn't it? We are attacked on every (social media) front by countless daily routines that are supposed to help us be more confident/relaxed/rich/fit/or whatever is currently trendy to be. We all know them: wake up at 3 am, meditate, cold shower, cardio, yoga, journal, read a self-help book (or four), eat an avocado toast or just an almond or a green smoothie, go to uni, do another training, study for 8 hours straight, ..., ..., go to sleep at 3 am, oh no, wait... 
And of course you should have a pricey bullet journal, or e-planner on your iPad, and Notion, and million other apps and trackers because you can't let any drop of water slip, (you should drink gazillion liters of water btw.). 

I'm afraid we start to forget how to do the simple things because suddenly we have all these apps and devices now. Currently I'm reading Thoreau's "Walden", and in one of the chapters he writes:

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already too easy to arrive at [...].

 So do we really need all these things, all these routines, all these apps, or are we just too scared or unwilling to simply start?