How Satisfied Are You With Your Current Life?

In this modern world, everyone wants to build good fortune, healthy relationships, and a better world only for themselves. It’s not bad to be a little selfish for the sake of oneself, right? But what if these things ruin your contentedness? What if you still remain unsatisfied with what you have in your current life?

There’s no doubt that the main purpose of our backbreaking work is to eventually bear the smile and happiness in the end. However, still, with all this chaos and pursuit we are somewhere failing to match the satisfaction level that we expected in return.

I agree if you’re seeking a lap of luxury, you have to work well, really well, you have to be greedy sometimes. Everything is essential in life, like money, time, friends, family, house, & education. Yet in this rat race, something we are vacating is ‘Contentedness.’ 

Contentment is a feeling or state of sense that comes with being satisfied with what we have and what we become in our life. When you are content with yourself, you probably care about the external force which is letting you down and demoralizing you. Being content is just one way to be happy.

As I said, everyone wants to look & feel good and happy every time. Also, everyone faces problems in their life, life doesn’t always go the way we have planned for. And then, we became frustrated with ourselves, it became hard for us to stay positive and satisfied.

So, what’s the reason behind making you feel unsatisfied with life? Why we are still not blessed with what we have?

Reasons Why We Are Never Satisfied With Our Life

Envy

We have always heard in our surroundings, “look at your opponent, he/she is doing so good and where do you stand? You’re good for nothing”. And by listening to these words our self-respect hurts and we start demonstrating them wrong. There is nothing bad about it right? But what happens instead of improving ourselves we started viewing our friends as rivals and developing a sense of envy?

We’ll slowly assassinate our relationships. It’ll not only harm our relationship with them but also we start making the wrong perception about them. When we battle with these types of emotions over the long term, it can affect our health both mentally and physically. Indirectly, Jealousy affects our contentedness or cease us from being satisfied with our reality.

Hunger For Success

“Stay hungry and follow your dreams”- jack ma, “The people who want to step into their greatness are hungry!” – Less Brown. We always find ourselves with these types of quotes about success. Everyone is hungry for success, and there is nothing wrong with it. All of us have the right to be successful. But the problem is many hungry people don’t realize, what is success? Since the definition of success is not universal. It keeps changing.

But one universal fact that can be quoted about success is that – ‘Success means being satisfied with what you have and what you have achieved.’ Now, one can argue that if we get satisfied easily so how we will further improve ourselves? Being satisfied with the things you have hands-on and trying to work better are two different spaces.

You don’t need to earn millions to find happiness but as a matter of fact, is what you choose to be content with. If you are satisfied with the things you have in your life then you will start appreciating and enjoying even ‘small’ things. It will help you to be more focused and will keep you remain motivated to do better in your life.

Modernization

Modernization has made our life easy and it has opened lots of opportunities to grow faster. But at the same time, it might have put the world under depression. For instance, Smartphones brought a revolution to the modern era and no one has imagined that this small piece of equipment can do so many things at the same time.

But recall the pre-modernization era, and compare it with nowadays we will find people from that time are much happier in a way. Even though they don’t have that luxury.

But now we can see bending heads on Mobile Phones everywhere, whether it’s Metro, Public buses, family functions, etc. This is after modernization got its pace.

The advancement in technology also expands the level of satisfaction. And we have to compete with it otherwise we’ll be left behind. The level of satisfaction isn’t still it keeps moving up & up with the modernization and growth of humankind.

So, we can say that modernization is somewhere also the reason that snatching our little moments of happiness, just because there is so much to achieve.

Complaining Nature

There is no doubt that human beings’ desires are infinite. It keeps escalating every day because we always want better in our life. I think everyone acts like a crybaby. We never take accountability for what we do despite we put figures on others. Often we blame others for our wrong decisions.

We should look at people lower than us to be thankful because there are millions of people away from the necessities which you are enjoying right now.

The last week on my way back home, I saw two small kids come up to me asking for money. I gave them money and witnessed the exceptional smile on their faces. They both were siblings and probably of age 5 and 4, they started dancing and were looking much happier than any other man around there, including me. I know that a small amount of money will not change their life but the satisfaction on their face was clicked in my mind that this is true happiness that the world is lacking.

How We Can Be Satisfied With What We Have?

Add simplicity to your life

Being simple simply means asking why do you want more or finding the reason for your hunger. Simplicity means being content with less and finding happiness in small things. I am not discouraging you not to doing some big rather encouraging you to focus on what you have and despite unnecessary pushing yourself into the swamp.

When you will find the root cause of wanting more and will be satisfied with what you own, then you can focus more on your current life which is extremely beautiful.

Keep Yourself With Good Surrounding

Daniel Kahneman, Noble Prize Winner and an author of Thinking, Fast and slow explains, “Happiness Is being Happy in your life. We experienced it immediately and at the moment. Life satisfaction is being happy about your life. It is the happiness that exists when we talk about the past and the big picture.”

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Having good people around us that understand us is no less than a blessing. If there’s someone in your life where you feel more secure and happy when you get each other company then it’s the biggest power you have. That’s the biggest reason for your happy life, you just have to realize that. Otherwise, people will always be going to taunt you for whatever you do.

Keep Your Chin Up

A simple smile on your face can be a game-changer in your life. The smile on your face not just makes you good but also releases stress and creates endorphins that will make you happier and more positive all day.

Everyone faces problems in their life but the choice is yours that how you want to tackle these situations. With stress and remains unsatisfied or keep smiling and feeling strong.

At last, I want to say everything depends on us, everyone faces problems, but it depends on us what we choose. Either we choose to remain negative and unsatisfied or keep ourselves positive and let the things go which is not in our hand.

Always look lower than you to be blessed and always look higher than you to set priorities. But never compare yourself with others, everyone has their own share of accomplishments. You have a great purpose in your life.

And remember, an egoist can never be satisfied by what he has, and an innocent can never be worried about what he hasn’t.

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