[Dec 2025] About Simplicity
How living lightly—inside and out—creates space for peace, purpose, and the things that truly matter.
Hey Kiddo!
Love you a lot & miss you terribly! Hope you are doing wonderfully well.
Writing to you like this, sometimes feels like talking to myself. May be I will never know if you are reading these and getting anything out of these words that I am just putting together. I feel like that labourer who just goes on about his day putting bricks together and joining walls and making floors - without knowing if he will ever live to see the final building when its ready. He still does his job diligently knowing that if he makes a mistake, it might end up ruining the building. So is life, in a nutshell, perhaps. We all have a job to do and we have got to try and do our job the best way we can. Hence, these letters!
It was my birthday last month. Yet another one, without you by my side. You owe me a few ‘Happy Birthdays’ boy! It’s fine. My prayers are with you and May the God and the Supreme Being give you the best of everything in your life because you deserve it all!
Today, I want to tell you about the quiet strength hidden in something most people ignore: simplicity.
Simplicity is not about owning less.
It is about needing less.
It is not about removing things from life.
It is about removing what is unnecessary so that what truly matters can breathe.
The world rewards complication, but maturity chooses simplicity.
Most people believe that making things bigger, louder, or more complex is a sign of intelligence. But as you grow older, you’ll see a strange truth: the wisest people live the simplest lives.
Not empty—simple.
Not boring—clear.
Not minimal—meaningful.
Simplicity doesn’t reduce your life.
It sharpens it.
It helps you see what you want, who you are, and where you’re going without the fog.
Simplicity begins inside you.
The first clutter you must clear is not in your room—it’s in your mind.
The unnecessary anxieties.
The imagined fears.
The overthinking.
The desire to please everyone.
All these things take up space that should belong to your dreams and your peace.
Living simply means you decide what deserves a place in your head—and what does not.
When you choose clarity over chaos, your mind becomes like a calm river: peaceful on the surface, powerful beneath.
Simplicity makes you confident.
There is a unique confidence in people who live lightly.
They don’t chase approval.
They don’t carry emotional burdens longer than needed.
They don’t try to own everything or impress everyone.
Their confidence comes not from having more, but from needing less.
The lighter you travel through life, the more freely you can move, explore, change, and grow. Heavy people—heavy with expectations, possessions, pride or fears—struggle to take even one step forward.
Travel light, Champ.
Not just in luggage—in life.
Simplicity helps you focus on what matters.
Your time, attention, energy, and emotions are limited resources. If you let the world take them, you’ll have nothing left for yourself.
So choose carefully:
Choose a few friends, but true ones.
Choose a few goals, but meaningful ones.
Choose a few habits, but powerful ones.
Choose a few beliefs, but ones worth defending.
Life rewards depth, not spread.
Like a plant—grow deep roots, not just wide branches.
Simplicity is spiritual.
When you strip away the unnecessary, what is left is your essence—your values, your peace, your truth.
This clarity makes you calm.
It makes you aware of your place in the world.
It makes you grateful for the smallest things.
A sunrise.
A conversation.
A walk.
A moment of stillness.
When you live simply, even ordinary things begin to feel extraordinary.
Remember this, Champ:
Living a simple life does not mean having less.
It means having exactly what you need—and nothing else.
It means leaving space for joy, for clarity, for purpose, for yourself.
A simple life is not a small life.
It is a fuller, deeper, lighter, and more intentional one.
And the more you grow, the more you’ll realise:
Simplicity is not the opposite of richness.
It is the foundation of it.
Live light, my son.
The world is easier to navigate when you are not carrying unnecessary weight.
With all my love,
Papa