How is one content with what they have or are given?
Immediately an alternate question should be as a rebuttal. What do we truly need to be happy? Materialistic living is a commonality in the world today--yet if tomorrow came and everything we own disappeared we would see who was indeed happy out of purity not corruption. We have things to simplify life to help us, soothe us. Every object is a gift that we should appreciate, as is. People should be treated as such as well.
Need and Want are two completely different forces in life. We must learn to see the good and fortunate value in objects rather than a wanting for more or better. Asking ourselves what do I need and what do I need it for--easily can calm an eager wallet. And just because we can does not mean that we should.
Want breeds want. Truth in life can underline every thought--purity of existence. Who is in your life and where they stand, as well as what we have and what it does for us, help us to understand our wants and needs. Yet we can not let them consume us or distract us from our path. In the end what is meant to happen will happen. The world is a momentum of forces expelled from people and nature, nearly impossible to avoid. So when opportunity comes our way in object or human form, we may choose. But remember that living in wanting is almost as bad as living in that which does not exist yet, not the moment that is contently now.
Immediately an alternate question should be as a rebuttal. What do we truly need to be happy? Materialistic living is a commonality in the world today--yet if tomorrow came and everything we own disappeared we would see who was indeed happy out of purity not corruption. We have things to simplify life to help us, soothe us. Every object is a gift that we should appreciate, as is. People should be treated as such as well.
Need and Want are two completely different forces in life. We must learn to see the good and fortunate value in objects rather than a wanting for more or better. Asking ourselves what do I need and what do I need it for--easily can calm an eager wallet. And just because we can does not mean that we should.
Want breeds want. Truth in life can underline every thought--purity of existence. Who is in your life and where they stand, as well as what we have and what it does for us, help us to understand our wants and needs. Yet we can not let them consume us or distract us from our path. In the end what is meant to happen will happen. The world is a momentum of forces expelled from people and nature, nearly impossible to avoid. So when opportunity comes our way in object or human form, we may choose. But remember that living in wanting is almost as bad as living in that which does not exist yet, not the moment that is contently now.
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ReplyDeleteI think it is easy for someone to be content with what they are given. Being content is a disease.
ReplyDeleteAs humans, we WANT to be content. It is the easy thing to do. Humans WANT to feel comfortable and and we do not want to search for something better, with chances we find only things that are worse.
People become content with a job that they hate, so they do not go out and search for a new one. People become content with people whom they do not love anymore. They end up living in these emotionless relationships. They are too SCARED to go out and find something better. So they do what is easy and become content. It is a disease.
I will never become content. I will always be thriving and searching for something greater.
I know it is a little long, but please read this. It touches on what you are trying to say here. I think you will agree with what I am trying to say.
http://killinlife.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-future-me.html
P.s. you do have a beautiful mind! You and I seem similar when it comes to a lot of topics. I can see that in your work. Keep on writing, I enjoy it!