Basics

Basics is things that are essential, fundamental, necessary, indispensable, vital, crucial, critical, central, key, important, principal, major, main, chief, prime, simple, plain and straight forward or could be primitive, rudimentary or even unsophisticated.
I suppose that tells it all; if not most of it.
So when we say “let’s get back to basics,” then the above is what we can mean and most likely do, how about that?
Geez, that doesn’t appear to be that basic to me it seems a little bit complex, huh?
But who am I to judge, not me, never…ha!
When we all talk about making things simpler in life we all feel that it is basically how we wish to live our lives.
Choosing to do what you enjoy for entertainment purpose is one way to have some basic desires fulfilled; I am sure most would agree?
Buying groceries with eggs, milk and bread on your list are considered your basics too.
Nothing fancy in choices of clothing also would be considered basic, as our one son’s high school wardrobe consisted of Levis and T-shirts preferably dark in color and rather plain and very crucial to his way of dressing.
Rudimentary also means undeveloped, which I suppose could be something we may say about a third world country having food, water and a roof over their heads is very basic and that would be considered R-U-D-I-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y, interesting conclusion to what may be needed necessity-wise in all natural disaster hit countries too, including our very own.
Unsophisticated is a much broader sense of what is truly basic but also can mean naïve, as well as artless and natural or unrefined, which if you delve further goes into raw, unprocessed, untouched and would you believe organic?
Gosh what a language this is, huh?
And this is my self-imposed symposium of my word analysis that is not that much different from my surfing through my old fashioned World Book Encyclopedias!
I would head for my white leather bound gold embossed editions that were a wonderful companion to my white and gold trimmed French Provincial furniture in my teen bedroom, and I would choose from A to Z to look up one thing and find myself turning to the next page and then the next and on and on I would go! So simple and so basic and so learning without being told to do or even realizing… hmm…Have you ever done that?
Boy, but we all must have to admit that this is so much easier, really! Or tried that with an online look-up; going on and on I mean?
No more heavy volumes to get off of the shelf and waiting on those updates to come yearly with that new info, here it is changing daily or even sometimes hourly or minute to minute and now we feel that this medium is also essential to our wellbeing for access to all we need to know, huh…what a marvel and I do so gush, sorry!
But I know I mentioned this before... well here I go ahead again, aren’t all of you still amazed by all of this? (My hands are making circles over the elderly PC that is my vehicle for all of this!)
‘The information highways’, such a truly basic all encompassing name hmmm?
Just had to tie that in too, ha!
Points are to be made and so I do try… and some would have to admit that at times I am severely trying, bud ump bum! (Drummer beats!)

Any-who, on that slightly more light hearted ending to... oh I don’t know ... a short tour of what is basic?
Let me please be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!