Simplicity

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
- Henry David Thoreau

For me, simplicity is not an easy concept to grasp. But in my interpretation of it, simplicity is being stripped bare of everything and still being able to exist, as you are.
Take yourself out of your circumstance, take away your money, your clothes, your cars, your cameras... all of it. It's not an easy thing.
Perhaps we've all become separated from the bareness, the nakedness, of just being. Not through purpose or intention, but simply through human nature, of evolution.
Today, for this theme, my simple joy is expressed through a picture of myself.
No make up-on, hair messy and dirty, no pretence and no editing or cropping, no nice lighting or angles... just me.
And I will sit and worry of what you think, whether you think that I am full of myself, that I think I'm better, etc etc.
So, my joy in this is a selfish one - and that is, while I am not comfortable showing this portrayal of myself, I feel I should, even if for one fleeting moment, it gives me some joy for being so carelessly free.