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My friend Deanne is looking for scholarships and came across this prompt.

" The Live Deliberately Essay Challenge is available to students at least 13 years of age. Consider Thoreau's belief that living a simpler life will make our life richer in many ways. He even suggests that our complex, complicated lives cause us to feel alone, poor and weak - and that solitude, poverty and weakness would no longer exist in a simplified life. Explore Thoreau's beliefs about simplicity and how they resonate in your own life then write. Then, write a personal reflection. Essays should be no longer than 500 words."

This is what I think:

To answer this question we have to define what a simple and complex life is. I think with any situation comes its own set of problems. More money more problems, no money doesn't equal no problems.

The man who wants a ferrari can want it as bad as a kid who wants a happy meal.
To the man, a happy meal is no big deal because he can easily acquire one, but for the kid it's not as easy.

I don't think that life is complex or simple, it is what it is and our minds are the ones that interpret the information and make it appear to be simple or complex.You can have the same exactly life and just decide to change how you perceive it. Back to the happy meal scenario. The man can get a bunch of happy meals and so the kid would be envious and wants to grow up so he can get what he wants now. The man envies the child because all that it takes to be happy is a simple happy meal which he can have a lot of but the no longer make him happy. This is where the grass is always greener adage comes in.