Don’t Upgrade Everything Good that is Happening for You
Some things are better left simple. Many even.
No doubt, experimentation is how we upgrade to make life easier and more comfortable for us. This explains how technology kept getting better to the point where you can sit in your house and know the price of food elsewhere — and so many other awesome discoveries alike.
I like how life has gotten much better over the years due to these experiments and discoveries leading to an upgrade. However, in several other aspects of living, the same thing cannot necessarily be said without much consideration. Which is that sometimes, upgrading a system can lead to its utter downfall.
Instances like: Upgrading the flavor of perishable food could mar the essence of its sales in the first place. Having a clock-in device at work could be increasing the anxiety of so many workers who at one point or due to a tangible reason couldn’t make it to work on time. Devising even more identification means and their linkage to important documents such as our travel documents could ruin the appetite for it.
The list goes on…
In essence, this is capitalizing on the difference between complex and complicated in the form of an upgrade.
There is complex. And there is complicated. The two are intertwined as well. Making things complex can complicate them. Whereas in certain other scenarios it may not be the case. But not everything good happening in one’s life needs to be upgraded. Some things are better left as simple as they are or made. Many even.
Here are some of the reasons why:
Upgrading things can make you forget the essence
When you’re setting up a family for instance, at first all you may want is a simple unit filled with love, easy communication, togetherness, and laughter. Pursuing other things in the bid to upgrade this situation can ruin its entire essence of it. Simply because either it’s no longer a simple unit or there is no joy enough to go round as you have to work double unavailable to provide.
This scenario best explains ways upgrading things can mar its essence so you’d rather keep it as is.
Upgrading your happy situations can make you highly expectant
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more sometimes out of life. But be aware that some of the downsides can outweigh the good parts. One of them is becoming too expectant of a certain outcome. This can lead to a hedonistic sad life as opposed to the essence of the whole upgrade in the first place (like I previously mentioned).
Let me give you a personal example: the minute I signed up to further my education and obtain a Master’s degree was the beginning of a more solid quest out of life — from the one that seemed unfulfilling in the first place.
When I had my Bachelor’s degree, it was easier to deal with unemployment or crappy employment, but having a Master’s degree almost seemed like it ruined the whole thing and made me sadder and more expectant.
Upgrading certain happy moments can make you selfish
Yes, that’s right. The more you want, the more you want. You are hardly satisfied. You also never seem to get a breather to enjoy the ones you’ve acquired or even live in the moment. You’re constantly on that treadmill of achieving more and more and more. Hence, complicating the simple nature of success you garnered already. Instead of practicing the act of using the pause and reflect button in your life.
Think about it.
So, yeah, there you have it. Upgrading things can complicate them. Making things complex can end up ruining the essence of the whole thing in the first place. And when you do, you might not realize it. If you’re lucky to realize it, it might push you further to do more to achieve more, hence, neglecting yourself and forgetting to celebrate the important milestones you’ve attained thus far.
No wonder Socrates and other philosophers of here-time keep inferring to not settle for the outcome of anything, but rather enjoy the process. This is what true living means. Otherwise, we’re left amiss of what it means to live only gearing towards existing. Which I wouldn’t advise anyone.
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