Complexity Kills

By in Everything is Spiritual, Mini Essays, Thought-provoked

Have you ever noticed that it’s the simple things that grab you the most?

But it’s like there’s this overwhelming urge for us to complicate, almost as if all the things we do aren’t quite good enough and the way to counter that is by adding complexity. I’m not talking on the basis that too many elements is a bad thing, I’m saying that too many elements without consistency and cohesion is a bad thing.

For example:

Complexity in:
Design – A thousand inconsistant fonts, too many elements cluttering a canvas.

Music – Far too many intricate things in their own right merged together in such a way that everything is trying to share the solo stage at the same time.

Photography – Too much in the shot. All this superfluous information that only distracts the eye from the focus and reason of the photo.

Web Design – An overflow of different fonts, colours and inconsistent layouts that serve only as confusing to the end user.

In case word examples weren’t enough:

In all my composed music I struggle with this concept of needing to constantly add more to it because enough just isn’t quite there somehow. It’s like there’s this unobtainable standard that must be appeased, a dissatisfaction with what is there already.

This dissatisfied way of doing things can pretty quickly smear into life as a Christian. What a dose of irony if the week is so full with Christian events that there isn’t enough time for God.

Yet the Christian message is the most simplest of all.

He loved.
He came.
He died.
He rose.
We accept.
We are forgiven.

Goodnight complexity.

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