sight for sore minds
on my way home last night while riding a jeepney there’s this two women gossiping about their insensible associate and its splurge on money, ending with none on her pocket. and then one said
“hindi kase makuntento eh”.
as to my own accepted wisdom, when I become contented, I stop. there’s nothing more to ask and have because I feel contented with what I got, and at that state I believe there’s no greater satisfaction than what I just had. and when i'm not contented I do further to fill in my requirements. this is when I feel the need to get more out of things. or sometimes I pray to God to ask.
but in a world full of challenges, heartbreaks, and chances with too many options, do we need to be bounded?
as the friendly mw dictionary says: to be content is
to appease the desires of oneself; to limit oneself in requirements, desires, or actions; it is a feeling or manifesting satisfaction with one’s
possessions, status, or situation.
in life, we work hard for the money. and if earning for one job isn’t enough, we ought to find other means like getting an extra work (‘raket’, as we fondly call it) to be paid extra or trying our entrepreneurship skills for putting up a small business to grow money or just performing advance eyeing up an upper level position and a salary raise. some rob banks and pawnshops to get a hold of huge amount of money; others have the sense of comfort living trouble-free. often we compare our living conditions with others and then forget our own standards.
we carry out acts more than enough. it’s like the need of swallowing a sword than just making milk disappear on a tumbler. after belting high notes out like mimicking a bird by trying to break glass, a standing ovation with a round of applause is much more enjoyable to receive than just applause. in the case of limitless possibilities, we strive more. yet, we suffer, and it breaks our heart. we have this thinking that in order to be on top we have to accept all opportunities and be always competitive. and if we don’t, we assume to have the worst life and we live in failure. it’s not healthy. sometimes passing up an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is a way of not complicating your life.
when it comes to love we look for perfect partners (which is very unlikely to have, bless you) just to have a perfect relationship (again, bless you). people jumps from one relationship to another for the reasons of not being satisfied with their past lovers, claims of being neglected, telling stories of horror not living happily together after all. delight, even if it’s not perfect.
we question others about their capacities and we happen to oversee our own incapacities. as unsatisfied customers of the market, we fall. and standing up after a fall won’t matter at all if we keep on doing the things that made us fall. yes, leap and the net will appear, the net metaphors as friends. however, we should recognize the fact that friends won’t be there for us too long. they have their own troubles too. in the end it’s still you that resolves it all. live and learn. while somehow our relationships make us who we are, in more than many ways we make our relationships. we compose the magic out of it.
it’s not your business to make an impact to anyone. identify and look after the healthy boundaries that you need. appreciate what you have. be familiar with yourself over again and revert to the unique purpose and aspirations of your heart and find happiness. if you are happy, you are contented.
jan's blah blah @
4:39 PM
1 Comments:
i got this one from the net. it's from woody allen.
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
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