Simple Simplicity:

An Essay about a “Simple man”

Jordan Crawford

September 27, 2011

I think that simplicity can be very nice for a life especially a busy one. I think that friends should be simple, so you do not have to unearth their past to figure out what they are like. I think that in characters in books or movies should have simple but strong goals like in The Cosby Show. That was a lot of thinking but simplicity is really a thing to be treasured.

               Simplicity in a friend is great to have because it is easier to relate to what they are like personality wise because their feelings are not masked. In my life there are not many simple people as the song describes simplicity, but there are a few, for example Emmanuel Perry is, in some ways, a simple man. First of all, Emmanuel has a relatively long name, but he prefers the shorter version of just the uppercase letter E. When we are running the mile double in P.E. then in Cross Country he always says things like “well we are going to run it sometimes anyway”. When E and I are talking we usually don’t go to into detail about things. For a reference, when we are talking about games or animals we usually don’t go that into deep detail, we only use unique but simple facts. On the other hand, our ideas of simplicity are different than the normal standard so we usually say things unknown to others. E may be simple but there are also some rather complicated things about him. His real name is John but he prefers his middle name Emmanuel. He also enjoys the study of Biology which is a far from simple subject. To wrap this up E is a fun loving companion, who, in some ways, is a simple man.
               Some of the simplest people are in books or on TV like the Cosby Show. In the Cosby Show Bill Cosby’s character is simple but not flat. Whenever one of his daughters or his son is having trouble in school he would tell them to sit next to him and listen, just like in “A Simple Man”. The most problematic child is Theo, a young man who wants to skip college when, or if, he gets there. Whenever he says this to his parents, Mr. Cosby always tells him to wait to see how the rest of the week will go, so in other words, he is saying don’t live to fast so you still have time to change your mind. No matter how hard the kids try to persuade him he always tells them the same thing, not to live to fast. In the TV show Bill Cosby was a doctor and he took pride in that. When a kid received a bad grade and they say they are just going for a simple job unlike he did. He often responds to try hard because it will help them another day.  On the whole, Bill Cosby is not a very simple character in the means of flatness but he fits the basic description of a simple man, with his everlasting confidence, as  the song describes is needed.       
          Being simple can be very nice in times of stress. When you are rushing to finish something really fast like an exam or race try to think simply of simple thoughts rather than thinking of what class you will have next and what might happen in it. Bill Cosby said to just slow down and take everything one step at a time. My friend E likes to live at that nice pace, just like how I plan to do.