Simple Folk.

I have never considered myself a very intellectual person.  Over the forty years I've been around, I have met people I have considered simple. I didn't really ever look down on them but I thought that they were missing something. As I have gotten older I have come to realize that maybe they are the fortunate ones. A simple person may not be highly educated.  They may have very basic taste in clothes.  They may have an old car. They may live in a modest house. But I have found that what they lack in possessions and complicated personality they make up for in character. These are the people that if  you needed the shirt off their back they would give it to you.  They do not trouble themselves with the trappings of modern, status-driven life. This gives them the enviable position of being able to concentrate on what is important in life. The people, the stories and the connections they make on their journey from cradle to grave. They see people for who they are and not what they own. They truly appreciate the simple pleasures in life. Possessions can be a huge distraction to what is important. I admit that possessions can make things more fun. It just seems to me that as a whole, people, at least in our country, have become so wound up in what we possess that we have lost sight of what we have.