Dear Fellow Traveler,
What do we really need in life? The American essayist Henry David Thoreau pondered this very question.
In his classic work Walden, Thoreau wrote,
Our lives are frittered away by detail. An honest man hardly needs to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases; he may add his ten toes and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
“What does it mean to live simply?” you might ask.
