"Less is More"

I'm adopting a new policy in life- "Less is More".  This applies to the principle of paring down "stuff" at home, books checked out from the library (one at a time, as opposed to a dozen at once, requiring bags and doors held open by  folks who relate to the excess), online friends, real-life buddies, words on a blog, social networking sites, coffeehouse menu choices, ideas for the future, clothes we haven't worn in ages bursting out of the closet (under the pretense of "I might wear it one day") and actions in real time.  Hundreds of choices scrolling before our dazed eyes.  The world would have us believe it is a good thing to have too much going on to add to one's credentials, an overload of activities at all times to show how accomplished and busy we are, from multi-tasking, friending hundreds of people on our Facebook page (and maintaining communications with approximately 4 of them), cramming contact names & numbers in our cells and email boxes, having 10 of everything from cell phone skins to magazine subscriptions to black tee shirts with the identical logo.  Its become a human zoo determined to cram information down our throats, riding on appearances.  Seems that society is bent on pulling everyone in 5 different directions at once.  But we can slow it down and make the choice to concentrate on doing or being one thing at a time, instead of feeling scattered and, as a result, overwhelmed.  Valuing the people, ideas, dreams and collective info in one's life is all-important, and we should only surround ourselves with the meaningful, not a pile of collective information overload.  By paring our world down to bare bones and deciding who or what is important...or at least acknowledging one thing at a time... we realize what we have, and make room for what is really significant and of serious value instead of being overwhelmed and crowded by too much going on at once to make ourselves feel a false sense of security.  Less IS more.  Sometimes the power lies in what is hidden and what we leave out, instead of showing the world every facet of who and what we are.