We search for simplicity, a maintainable ideal that we feel that we can devote ourselves to. Too many and too much, as fulfilling as it sounds, quickly leads away from something maintainable and off into the weeds.
Nor should simple be considered the absence of complexity. Many of the of the simplest ideals that we devote ourselves to, Love, Happiness, or Beauty, these are some of the most complex undertakings that we can pursue, more parable than dogma, and it’s the chase of these that effectively give meaning to a lifetime.