Complexity

"I'll have a grande extra water, no fat soy vanilla latte"... eh??? That's the sort of things people order here at Starbucks. I have no idea how the baristas do it!! How do they remember the complex orders that people put in. I'm sure they're just happy to get a simple "grande hot chocolate" order, or a "cafe americano"... In the old days, we would say that somebody who orders something that complicated is "high maintenance"... It reminds me of that movie with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, "When Harry met Sally"... Sally orders a salad, but it is such a complicated order that Harry just sits there and then says "high maintenance"...

We like the things that we like... but sometimes it seems like we take it a bit over the top. We want things exactly the way that we want them and nothing else will do... And if we don't get things exactly the way we want them, then we can often have a little hissy fit in the middle of it all! Is that sort of complexity really necessary in our lives? Do we need to have everything exactly the way we want it?? Or could it be different somehow? Could we simplify our lives a little bit?

I'm reading that book by Peter Walsh right now, "Enough Already", and it really speaks to me on how complicated we can make our lives. We create drama in our lives where none is required. Maybe it's because we are addicted to drama... Maybe it's because without the shot of drama in our lives, we think that our lives are too boring and... simple? Drama for the sake of drama is really a waste of time... We make mountains out of mole hills. We create upset where none is required... We make a tempest in a teapot... There are all sorts of proverbs that speak to our way of making something bigger than it really is...

Something within us likes to believe that we matter in the world. Something within us likes to believe that the world revolves around us. But what happens when we don't see that?? Well, we create the drama, we create the scenario that does make us the centre... We draw attention to ourselves by having an upset or creating a full-blown drama queen routine... What a waste of time! I doesn't have to be that way...