Read the following excerpt from Helity Uavid "in the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed
for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a
great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary, eat but one; instead of a hundred
dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion."
What is the message Thoreau is conveying to the reader?