Perspective

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have – Hyman Juda Schachtel

We are never pleased with what we have.  Whether it is big or small, is irrelevant.  Even when we have the item, we want a bigger or better version.  A pair of jeans is not good enough; it has to be a specific brand... A roof over our head is not good enough; it has to be of a certain size, in a certain suburb...  Bread is not good enough; it has to be ...  Somehow we always think of the next item to buy.  This causes us to feel discontented.

It doesn’t mean that we should not strive to better ourselves or that we shouldn’t have ambition, but we do take it too far and in the process we put more stress on ourselves than what is necessary.

Ever thought of wanting what you have i.e. living in harmony with yourself?  He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world = Marcus Aurelius