Got a Complex?

“Life is pretty simple. You live. You die.”
The Chemical Buddha liked to keep things simple. Because making things complex was the easiest thing in the world to do. All you had to do was add on more stuff and wah-lah, complexity. Anyone could do that. But stripping things down to its simplest qualities? That’s the realm of the Buddhas (or people who had sacrificed huge parts of their brains to caustic, hallucination inducing chemicals). That, coupled with the fact that TCB could only understand things if they were explained to him like he was a 3-year-old (which mentally he was) helped him keep everything simple. After TCB heard a philosopher wax poetic for a couple of hours on why we’re here and what happens after death, he cut through the complex bullshit and boiled it down to the above insight. Then, because his head hurt from all of the thinking, he took a nap.
What do you make more complex than it needs to be? What do you get out of making things complex?
How can you make your life more simple? And how might that help you?