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Contentment is one attribute that most of us want in us. But this wanting is again a search for something. Let us try to investigate within the limited purview of this author about contentment.


  A child goes to a school for kindergarten, then slowly the comparison with the best student starts. Then this goes to college, work and so on. What actually defines that you are the best student or the best employee or whatever best it is? This commercialisation of the best has made things superficial, don't understand why it can't be one of the best. Not everyone can be good at the same thing, everyone is unique. And each unique talent needs to be appreciated. 


 We somehow are taught to be afraid to be our own, we always seek to be better than our neighbour, better than the next kid in the school and so on. We are constantly seeking achievement, success, pride. As we grow on, these characteristics just grow with us linearly making it unbearable for ourselves at times. Somehow we want a wall to lean, so we use this comparison with others as a tool may be.


  The author feels that this constant seeking to be better than someone or to be noticed by our immediate circle is at its peak in the middle ages (25 to 50). Due to this, we are seeking things that we don't even need, but as others are possessing, so we want to be possessed by the same thing or a higher thing than that. And this leads to vanity within us, which most of us can't deny. And maybe during old age, this gradually reduces and this curve is at Zero only at the death bed. It is just a generalisation, but specifically, it could vary.


  So, contentment can start only when we stop seeking external recognition and even internal recognition/gratification. Quoting from Jiddu Krishnamurti's teachings, we are afraid to face truly 'What Is', so we are chasing 'What should be'. So if we can understand, 'What is' wholly then we can come to the real point of contentment. The author feels that contentment is necessary to build things that are long-lasting in this world. Most importantly in our daily lives, how much ever money we might so-called possessing it, but without contentment, we perceive ourselves as poor.

  Contentment in work, contentment in family, contentment in financial status and most importantly contentment in oneself helps to bring about a clear understanding about life and to live the way it is, to carry out your duties without the sense of vanity.

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