Easy? No Need for That.

     In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer seems to make everything more complicated than it needs to be, particularly when he and Huckleberry are trying to free Jim. Even though I have previously criticized Tom for this, I have to admit that I can most definitely relate it to my own life. Tom feels the need to do many extra things in order to set Jim free properly. He was not concerned with what was necessarily logical, but what would make him feel as though he was going about this adventure in the best way possible. Although I definitely think Jim could have been freed much more simply, I can understand some of the reasons as to why Tom wanted to make it so complicated to free Jim.
     In almost everything I do, I tend to pick the most complicated way. I have no idea why, it is just what I have always done. For example, when there are two ways to do a problem in math, I almost always pick the more complicated method. I do not want to make anything more difficult for myself than I need to; however, it always seems as if the more complicated methods make more sense to me. I suppose it is just how my brain works. In the end, though, I figure if it works for me, then it is not really a problem. Even if I have to do everything the most complicated way possible, the end justifies the means, right?