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Thursday, June 10, 2004

Contentment = Happiness?

I guess the more we seek happiness, the more it eludes us. We just have to let it find us sometimes, and knowing how to be content definitely helps. But it's human nature to want something that we don't have, whether it be physical things or abstract things like happiness. And when we do get something, we want more.... when I don't have a job, I want one so bad. Now that I have one, I want it to be a permanent job rather than a contract one... when we're sad, we want to be happy. When we can be happy for a moment, we want it to last... and so on.

So if we can never be content, does that mean we can never be happy? I think there's a difference between being content and appreciating what we have but still wanting more. Just because I want more (not contented), doesn't mean that I don't appreciate what I have.

I used to keep telling myself to be content, because I thought that's the only way I can be happy. "That's enough, I'm happy, I don't want more." My mom would accuse me of being lazy. "What? Only 6 A's out of 9 subjects?" "But that's very good already, I'm happy, a lot of my friends would kill for such grades." "If you think that way, you'll never achieve great things."

I hate to think that my mom is right, but she is in this case (ok, ok, in many other cases too). The desire in us to want better things for ourselves and those close to us is what propels us to greater heights. But while we're at it, it's nice to sometimes stop and smell the roses, or occasionally pause and count our blessings. Even in the darkest of hours, know that there is light. Because we've seen it before, and we'll see it again...

cybette wrote this at 06:18 PM
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