We all know that happiness is hard to come by....so how do you achieve it....So have you heard the sayings: "always shoot for more"; "never settle for the status quo"; "dare to be different"...Now have you heard the sayings: "be grateful for what you have"; "make the best of what you have"; "live with it life isnt perfect"..Isnt it all a bit contradictory...i mean is it really realistic for always be dreaming for more while making the best of what you have....i mean isnt the pursuit of superiority while accepting mediocrity already a paradox...
I completely understand that there is a fine balance blahblah blah....but who achieves it really? has laxmi mittal with his rivers of money achieved it..i mean last i heard he was working out to replicate amir khan's body in ghajni...he was surely a little unsettled, looking around for "something more" even if not strictly unhappy, even after achieving his business goals....
truth is that i met an old friend from ISB who made me realise something weird...daring aspirations, dreams, the pursuit for perfection; it can, albeit for some people, be the root cause of unhappiness...the search or quest itself can leave one completely and utterly unfulfilled...
its like you have a certain standard of living and then you dare to dream and want and desire.... then you work hard and move abroad and get the perfect job...and realise that u still essentially feel like shit..so u go for the gold again and decide that you want to do more with your life and move back to india and do social work and thats fine for a while....then u start feeling uneasy again as if there is definitely more to life than even this and you go and work towards achieving yet another new, more "seemingly" fulfilling goal.....and so on and so forth....
So then isnt it just best to be content with whatever you have? just make do with status quo? Is it the people who are modest, moderate and essentially mediocre who will find happiness in the long run...maybe its an illusion they create for themselves out of the temperate calm waters in their own mind but all said and done; isnt whats real to you, real to you?
I completely understand that there is a fine balance blahblah blah....but who achieves it really? has laxmi mittal with his rivers of money achieved it..i mean last i heard he was working out to replicate amir khan's body in ghajni...he was surely a little unsettled, looking around for "something more" even if not strictly unhappy, even after achieving his business goals....
truth is that i met an old friend from ISB who made me realise something weird...daring aspirations, dreams, the pursuit for perfection; it can, albeit for some people, be the root cause of unhappiness...the search or quest itself can leave one completely and utterly unfulfilled...
its like you have a certain standard of living and then you dare to dream and want and desire.... then you work hard and move abroad and get the perfect job...and realise that u still essentially feel like shit..so u go for the gold again and decide that you want to do more with your life and move back to india and do social work and thats fine for a while....then u start feeling uneasy again as if there is definitely more to life than even this and you go and work towards achieving yet another new, more "seemingly" fulfilling goal.....and so on and so forth....
So then isnt it just best to be content with whatever you have? just make do with status quo? Is it the people who are modest, moderate and essentially mediocre who will find happiness in the long run...maybe its an illusion they create for themselves out of the temperate calm waters in their own mind but all said and done; isnt whats real to you, real to you?
You can always sign out of the rat race, only you need to satisfied with a lot less cheese.
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*stumbled upon your blog during a random troll on google on isb :)