I've recently decided to grow my nails. Never really paying
much attention to them, I always cut my nails short to avoid the hassle. Now
the look of long nails has grown on me and I even went to the trouble of painting
them pink. I must admit they make me feel kind of sophisticated. But pretty as
they are, they have really turned most of my everyday tasks into frustrating
little chores.
Typing this is quite the hassle. Playing piano defeats the
entire purpose of creating beautiful sounds as my nails constantly click click
click on the keys. Doing up buttons and handling key chains and putting in
contact lenses are all such tough things right now because I’m so adamant at
having long, pretty, cutexed nails. The hassle that goes hand in hand with
having them has, over the past few days, made me rethink this unnecessary
addition to the frustrations of life.
As my mind wandered in the midst of my piano playing, it
came to light how many lame and unnecessary things we have and do in life that
really just make it harder. And then my thoughts dwelled deeper into how the trivialities
we consider important realistically have no true value in life. In turn,
I started thinking about how we always try to please people with little things
like polished cutlery and fancy teacups. How we try to impress others with new cars and base our
personal value on the materialistic things we think other people care about. How
some people only drink expensive wine or think themselves too fancy to eat at
Wimpy and never walk barefoot because the pedicure they just had was so
expensive.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to being a kid. When the
only problem I ever had was the fact that my mother dressed me in long-sleeved shirts
on sunny days. And when the biggest decision I had to make was deciding
which tree to climb. Then I remember that even today’s kids are subjected to the materialistic ideal of having the coolest
toys and sporting the best brands and calling from the most expensive cellphone
because they've been raised in a society where what you have is more important than
who you are.
So I am cutting my nails. I am choosing to live simply. I
choose to believe that the best way to survive in this world is to be happy
with ourselves instead of basing our happiness on what we possess. To wake up
in the morning and drive a normal car to a normal job and be happy doing it.
Because it’s more important to be who we really are than to expend
all our energy on pretending to be something we think they want us to be.
Listen to this song:
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