An ideal of contentment fuels the endless battle with bits of our life we dislike and cannot sit easy with. Eradicating discontentment when it appears doesn't leave us with contentment. Relationships, careers, a luxurious home bring satisfaction, but such circumstances, like ourselves, are changeable. Despite longer life expectancy our era bitches and moans constantly from discontent.
Contentment evades us. Before lock-down we had busy lives with barely enough time to do what we needed to do, we craved a simpler relaxed lifestyle. The lock-down forced us into a simpler more relaxed lifestyle, yet we crave to be busier. External circumstances are dictating our sense of well-being. Not content with then, not content with now. The solution for contentment resides with us.
Children believe in magical thinking, the harder they wish for something, then it'll happen. Adults believe in merit, if we behave and work hard we’ll be rewarded. Reality, however, doesn't respond to our beck and call, its actually indifferent to our wishes and wants. Every human lifestyle is unstable, uncontrollable, unsustainable, everything coming to an end eventually. If we’re able to face this full on, to calmly accept things as they are, the foundations for true contentment will be laid.
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