sapphi_snake said:
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. |
What is the other option? The American culture is one of always being miserable and wanting more. You keep acquiring and never have any peace or happiness. In this culture they keep selling more and more meaningless stuff. The key here is to being able to be happy with what you have and appreciate it. You can pursue more, but the idea is to not have your happiness lie outside yourself. If you can't enjoy what you have, more stuff doesn't make a difference. Key is to work out of where you are to have things get better, not suck where they are and not be as bad. In this way, getting more is a blessing, rather than and end of suck.
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