Why can’t life be more simple?

Who among us hasn’t wondered this?

It’s natural to want simplicity. To want straight lines instead of spirals, soft lessons instead of hard ones. 

But life isn’t complicated to punish us. 

It’s complex because we are complex—layered beings with layered emotions and layered evolution.

If everything were simple, we’d never stretch, deepen, or grow into who we’re becoming.

And the truth is, the chapters that shaped us were never the simple ones. They were the ones that asked us to face our shadow self, to surrender, to make difficult decisions.

Life becomes simpler only when our inner world becomes clear, even when the outer world stays chaotic. In fact, the simplicity we crave isn’t about things being easy—it’s about things being aligned.

Because when we recenter, life doesn’t just feel simpler.

It becomes simpler.

Not because the world changed, but because we did.

Simplicity is like a tree 🌳

A tree isn’t simple. It has roots reaching down, branches expanding out, leaves, flowers, fruits—all growing in their own timing. But everything aligns through one place: the trunk.

The trunk doesn’t erase complexity.

It organizes it.

It connects the hidden roots with the visible branches and gives direction to growth.

When the trunk is aligned, the whole tree knows how to grow.

Just like us.

When our core is aligned, our roots become our anchor, our branches expand naturally, and what’s meant to bloom will bloom in its own season—not just the leaves, but also the flowers, the fruits.

And so goes the circle of life.

Simplicity has never been about having less.

It’s about being aligned enough to hold more, without losing ourselves in the process 🙃

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📍 W Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

🎶 Credit: Original Music