Satisfaction and Happiness
What is this thing we all crave for all our life?
"Satisfaction" - why do we never meet satisifed people?
When I was young, I wanted more marks, more love. Then I got my 1 degree and I still wasnt satisfied and wanted another. Then I wanted to earn money to pay back the education expenses. Then wanted money since I wanted to buy a lot of things and live lavishly. So I wanted pay raise. That didnt satisfy and needed more money, more responsibity - got that too.
But, the hunger doesnt die.
Oh yes, by the way, I do think I am fairly satisfied with my life.
I was just narrating how most people live their life amazingly well - they acheive all their goals and still feel unsatisfied themselves. Why is it that way?
Maybe, I will try to answer that since I do feel satisfied most of the times. It is when I realized that for every car that I will own, I would want to own many more cars. For every cool job or work assignment I did or will do, I would want to do many more of those out in the world. For every 100,000$ I will earn, I will want more of those. And then I realized that if I cant be happy and satisfied with 100s of my achievements, then bloody when will I be start being happy and satisfied? And that day (not so back in past) for every small achievement (and ofcourse for the big ones), I start feeling satisfied. That in no way means that my hunger or ambitions have dried or reduced - infact, if anything, they have increased.
But, I constantly feel satisfied too - happy too - and I (try to) remember all of my small and big deeds. And then when I aim for the stars again, I know that when I do get the stars, I will truly enjoy that moment and so, I feel even better.
Maybe, I am different and maybe the ArtOfLiving course has imbibed a lot of this into me - but really, isnt this the way it should be?
Shouldnt we be always happy - because of the 100s of 1000s of things we have - and forget those 1 or 10 things that we somehow missed in life?
"Satisfaction" - why do we never meet satisifed people?
When I was young, I wanted more marks, more love. Then I got my 1 degree and I still wasnt satisfied and wanted another. Then I wanted to earn money to pay back the education expenses. Then wanted money since I wanted to buy a lot of things and live lavishly. So I wanted pay raise. That didnt satisfy and needed more money, more responsibity - got that too.
But, the hunger doesnt die.
Oh yes, by the way, I do think I am fairly satisfied with my life.
I was just narrating how most people live their life amazingly well - they acheive all their goals and still feel unsatisfied themselves. Why is it that way?
Maybe, I will try to answer that since I do feel satisfied most of the times. It is when I realized that for every car that I will own, I would want to own many more cars. For every cool job or work assignment I did or will do, I would want to do many more of those out in the world. For every 100,000$ I will earn, I will want more of those. And then I realized that if I cant be happy and satisfied with 100s of my achievements, then bloody when will I be start being happy and satisfied? And that day (not so back in past) for every small achievement (and ofcourse for the big ones), I start feeling satisfied. That in no way means that my hunger or ambitions have dried or reduced - infact, if anything, they have increased.
But, I constantly feel satisfied too - happy too - and I (try to) remember all of my small and big deeds. And then when I aim for the stars again, I know that when I do get the stars, I will truly enjoy that moment and so, I feel even better.
Maybe, I am different and maybe the ArtOfLiving course has imbibed a lot of this into me - but really, isnt this the way it should be?
Shouldnt we be always happy - because of the 100s of 1000s of things we have - and forget those 1 or 10 things that we somehow missed in life?
posted by Sumeet Savla at 1:00 AM
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