| richardhutnik said: You relate being content to being a pushover? Being able to accept circumstances without being driven to be emotionally unbalanced, such as being perpetually angry or depressed or negative is a strength. Like, individuals who can be single and not get lonely, are stronger. People who are mature have seen more and are able to put up with more. Care to argue how it isn't? |
Everything taken in excess is bad. That includes contemptment. If you're always contempt, even when you have good reason not to be you'll never make any progress in life. Life doesn't get better without puttin effort to change it, and being unsatisfied with your current situation is a good incentive. Of course if unsatisfaction is taken in excess that it can have the opposite effect, but still the middle road is the best.
The type of thinking that you talked about (contemptment in any situation) has had a very strong influence in Romanian culture and it's one of the main reasons why Romania sucks so much. I often remember reading Romanian literary works that had exactly this theme: a person tries to better their life only to fail miserably. Moral: be contempt with what you have, don't try to better your life 'cause you'll fail, you're gonna be a worthless POS forever.
The philosophy you talk about doesn't ilustrate maturity, it ilustrates fear. The fear of change and the fear of taking risks.
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