Simplifying your life is like chapelling your dominion deck.
If you dont understand dominion, then thats a pity, this analogy wouldnt work, you have to play it to understand it.
Chapel is the often initially underestimated by new players (they wonder why in the world would you even want one) but experts call it the strongest card in the game, expansions included. The main reason for this is that chapel has the ability to keep your deck thin.
As games drag on, with more purchases, one's deck tends to become thicker indeed, and the chances of drawing the cards you want to draw reduce dramatically. By thinning the deck using chapel, one can acquire the cards that one desires more frequently. Chapel is not just used to remove curses as one might think, but it is also used to remove cards with value such as copper and estates in order to make way for even better cards.
Life, is like a dominion game. As life goes on, you get more and more stuff added to your plate. While many of these are generally good stuff on their own, they clog up your plate. Theres a limit to how much you can take at any one point in time. For dominion, thats a hand of five. For life, thats whatever you can handle. As your life clogs up with all these good stuff, you find that you are often unable to have as easy access to the even better stuff as you would like.
The important thing to note about chapel is that it is not about removing worthless or negative things, its about removing less valued positive things, and that is true for life. You can only hold so much in your hand, and while coppers are decent, its better to be rid of them forever and hold a hand of silvers and golds instead. Many things in life are good, but just like how you would want to thin your deck in dominion, you would want thin out your life as well so that you may enjoy the better things.
So, simplify for greatness. Chapel your life.
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