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Board Politics & Society
Re: How to be contented on what you have?
by
audaciousbeing
on 28/07/2017, 09:55:33 UTC
People are always setting up goals for themselves and the more cash they have the higher the goals become. I'll give you an example from my own life. When I was a kid i always saved money for computer parts. I remember setting up small goals for myself, like a printer or a new keyboard, but when I started to earn real money and didn't have to rely on my parents, my computer goals quickly grew. My old desk suddenly became too small to fit my new computer and then my room was too small and I moved to a bigger flat, and that became too small, so I moved to a house, and now my yard feels too small, I'd like to have 2x that to fit a swimming pool Cheesy

I agree with this that as human being, our needs are insatiable and we will always go for more depending on the different things happening to us and as we migrate to different stages of life. However, not all our needs can be met at once currently I wish to have a car, but I cannot afford it at the moment and being contended means to strive legitimately to meet those needs without having to cross the boundary of legitimacy all in the quest of using a car by all means.