All of us want to be happy!!! People keep saying, you need to learn how to be "CONTENT" with what you have in life!! Does it ever work? I think its highly unlikely!
One of the most common and easily displayed human behaviour is to measure everything we have in life in relation to something else! I was once watching my 1 year old nephew playing with a toy!! He looked CONTENT with the toy he had in hand and was lost in his own world without a care if somebody was watching him. Did this last long? He screamed when I tried to take the toy from him and quietened down only after I let go off his toy! The peace only lasted till my niece walked into the room with a different and more colorful toy in her hand!! Out went the contentment and he started crying and screaming for the new toy!! This is how we are probably since birth or we probably learn this very young!!
So, this being how we are, how would it be possible to "Stay content with what we have"?? The point I have here is, We may try as much or claim and scream out to the world that "I am CONTENT with what I have". But, everytime we try to learn being content with what we have, life has its own unique ways of striking back at you!! It either takes away something from you and leaves you with lesser and struggling again, or, It goes ahead and gives something to somebody else which tips the scale over again!!!! This happens continiuosly till we are eventually left with NOTHING to survive!!! Its only when you learn to cope with and survive with NOTHING in life is that it starts to pay you back!!! It starts to compensate for all that its taken from you!!!!
Well!! Atleast this is my theory on how life works and I am hoping it comes true!! I have been on the path of losing something valuable everytime I was learning to stay content with what I had!! Ofcourse, haven't reached the stage of being left with NOTHING yet!!! Its a slow and long drawn process and I am willing to wait it out!!!
Kiran!
