CONTENTMENT ...............?

Sitting in my room,listening to the song "How deep is your love" by BEEGEES with heavenly breeze entering inside from the balcony and twinkling stars visible from the window ...no other moment can be better than this one to express my views in my blog.

I think the topic must be giving you a feeling that i am going to write just another article on the importance of contentment in life.If yes,then may be u missed out the big "Question mark"....and the big question itself behind it!!

"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.”

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty"

"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander".

You all must have read the above lines or other quotes depicting the importance of contentment for a happy life.Now my question to you all of you is :

Is contentment always good for us?

Does God always want us to accept unpleasant situations in our life unreflectively, or does he want us to work at changing some of them?

And are we ever likely to take steps to grow or to improve our life, unless we’re dissatisfied with some aspect of it? Doesn’t God use discontentment in positive ways to motivate us?

According to me,satisfaction restricts your growth.Authors and writers often describe complacency as the need for a happy life as one stops to desire n become satidifies with what one already has!!!.But, i feel,it is just a wrong way of analyzing.Contentment doesn't kill the desire.

Contentment to me is a thrust that helps me move on towards my goal.Its a feeling of loving what u have and asking for more at the same time.Now this simply doen't mean being 'GREEDY'.There is huge difference between ASPIRATION and GREEDINESS.And the term "Contentment" deals with this difference.Discontentment sometimes plays a redemptive role in the one's life.For instance,if I seek a new jobm it’s likely that because I’m attracted to a new work opportunity, and wanting to escape certain factors in my current job. Without this latter negative drive, I’m unlikely to find enough steam to embrace the positive goal of finding new employment.This negative motivation can also be called "Inspirational Dissatisfaction".Discontentment is a vital life-force, giving us both the insight and the impetus for needed change.And if we can learn to expect life to be offering us inspirational dissatisfaction, we’ll be more alert to the indispensable guidance our negative feelings may be providing us.

It is not important to be content with every circumstance in our life but in every circumstance.To be happy, one need to have the driving force and motivation for achievement of his/her goal,keeping oneself protected from the worldly frustration.Thus,the secret for a happy life is to learn the art to commix the contentment and discontement in a perfect ratio.

By the way, R U HAPPY??... he he he

Stay cool...stay contented

CHETNA