SIMPLY SIMPLE

Simply Simple!

Ferdous H Khan

Simply simple-----could be heard amongst researchers on a project, students on coming examination, soldiers before the battle, police on a chase, and of the least politician unnecessarily. Simply simple, though is said in very simple terms. But, in reality those who are involved with the task in hand to complete don’t see that as simple. What is simple? Unsophisticated, crude, can be manipulated, one has good understanding of the mechanism of the thing---can be taken for sure. This could be as simple as an ant bite. The small swelling mark, saucer shaped reddish color with allergic reaction, irritating the skin and you knowingly have to scratch. When one asks, what has happen? You just point and answer---Ant. The word ant simply flashes a sequence of actions through the mind of the observer. The sound Oouch when it bites, scratching and burning sensation of the affected spot. The word ant also includes the action of the bite. The whole procedure is so simply simple.

Things that one is sure off, appears as simple to that individual. It could also mean that, anything that is guaranteed is simply simple. The only guarantee that life gives is ‘DEATH’, a very simple matter indeed. Death is an action causing transition of life to the other phase. It’s a completion of action at one end and the start at the other. So, simply simple. Simple is when a political leader commits nepotism and faces criticism. He says, one was to be employed and one has been employed. The worst is right of a rightful individual is deprived, a system is flouted, a law is violated and all his staffs swallow there moral stand. It’s that simple. It could also be a case of a single mother. She is desperately trying to get her child enrolled in the school. Society here does not question her action----but rules a decision for father’s name (some changes appear as glimpses on the far end of the tunnel). This could be understood to be a necessity requirement of the society to identify the blood line. It’s so simply simple. The blood line that is essential to identify your caste and clan. To provide privilege or deprive from one, to allow one to climb the ladder of success and tie down the other to hold that same ladder. A simple task. Or this could be the society’s way of enforcing identifiable man-woman relationship or simple society has made a decision of trusting the male members! This looks so simple.

Simple matters of daily life keeps us busy throughout the day. Strain of the job, threat of the boss, sharing of the colleagues and the responsibilities back home, is what makes life so simple and alive. To be alive you need to work really hard to make a living, this involves, shelter, clothing, food and providing for relationship, like wife, children’s, parents. That’s simple. So, it’s simply simple to be alive!