Contentment..

Aspirations are good but I guess, you'll never be satisfied if your entire life revolves around those goals. I know I didn't & I learn my lesson well.

Dear friends..don't spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, hence remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. The senior said back then it was much less complex to search for the perfect life than it is today. It made me think. In our quest for the perfect life, are we blissfully ignorant of the precious things that are already in our lives?

Those who knows me always said, why worried you have everything that most of us only dream on having. Why all the headaches, the sacrifice of sleepless night just to finished that assignments presentations on time! why you need to work hard to achieve something when all you need is simply ask for it..yada yadaaa yadaaaaa..

All those questions had make me realize that I need to strive harder, try to achieve more all by myself! In time, I've proven to the world that I can make it own my own without any special help & deserve every single credit..but the feelings of wanting more is always there although I had everything I wanted.. so why did I have to keep looking for more? Shouldn't I be content?

The desire for a better life is the driving force behind our aspirations. Our fathers encouraged us to make somethings of ourselves, our mothers warned us never to settle for just any man. Opportunities, we've been told, are out there for our taking. We can accomplish anything we set our minds to.

Is it then our fault that we've set our minds on hedonistic pleasures at the expense of happiness? If that sounds paradoxical, it isn't. We think that if we have certain things, we'll be happy & therefore content, when the reverse is true.

As most of us can afford those little luxuries, today "happiness" is cultivated by status. don't you agree? Happiness is very subjective. There's this saying "while we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment". It seem that no matter how much I had, I would keep wanting more. Contentment continued to elude me not because I couldn't get what I wanted but because I kept moving the bar. My lack of contentment, therefore lay in my perception of the situation.

The only way to get happy was to decide what would make me happy now. I've since found that the things I once thought were important don't matter zilch anymore.

If settling means smiling more often & getting upset less, so be it. Yes, I've settled! I must say, I sleep better than before & I wake up with a smile more often now..hehehe

I gave up on what used to be my dreams, but I have new ones now. I'm content. For now =)

Well enough cracking my head for now..take care fellas 'til the next entry, bubbyeee! >>> EwEy!!!