Contentment and Retracting

There are actually no specific reasons to be happy. Happy people don't possess more things in life, what they're lacked of is dissatisfaction in life.

Fame and wealth are the things that can't be measured in life. If it's not yours it would never be, no matter how hard you try. If you would to work hard and accumulate all the money to be wealthy, the time would come when your future heirs spend all your hard-earned money recklessly. Besides, fame and status are not up to us to determine, isn't it? With just a mere natural disaster, accident, war or sickness can ruin all the fame and wealth! So what can be measured and what can you take control of?

Man has this peculiar tendency to picture the worst as we could always look forward to the future but not cherishing what we have in front of us. In other words, man can't see nor enjoy what they already have, because how is it possible for them to slow down their pace to see the great things in life when they're so focused in achieving 'the intangible and invisible future'?

The external temptations have overruled the love that exists between human beings and hence man has forgotten how to live in the moment.

This is as if a person who is not contented in leading satisfactory life, he gave up and sacrificed precious family time and enjoyment in life just to achieve more in his career. Eventually he succeeded in achieving his goals but it is too late when he realized how many things he has missed out. Trading happiness in life with career achievement doesn't worth the sacrifice, in the end you would only come to realize that happiness stems from leading a simple life because only an ordinary person has the time to slow down their pace to enjoy this beautiful life.

Religion teaches us to live in the moment. So what exactly is living in the moment? Living in the moment is to embrace all great and bad times. Great times brings us happiness whereas bad times educate us by maturing ourselves up and most importantly cherish all the fate of encountering with different people in your life.

Man has to live in the moment! One has to accept all the irreversible facts, don't frown over things that are in the past. A blind philosopher said: "It is not the most depressing if you are not able to see instead the most depressing is you can't accept the fact that you're blind." He confessed that after he has gone blind, he was able to see the world through his heart. Therefore a difference in perceiving things can make things so different.

As a matter of fact, how you perceive yourself doesn't reflect the true self, instead you are how your 'heart' perceives.

The philosopher let go of the gains and losses in life and through that he learned to view life with contentment. He understands the value of retracting a step to embrace, the one step of concession that allows him to see things better which made him more fortunate than many others in life.

What man can really possess is a pure and earnest heart. A person who possesses this trait is able to understand the actual meaning of contentment.

Contented people would perceive that they have gained a lot in life whereas greedy people would only complain how life has been unfair to them as they are not as successful as others. Greedy beings would only realize how beautiful their life was when they lose their limbs, gone blind and become disfigured. It is all too late when it has reached this stage and all they wished is just to turn back the time.

99% regrets can be eliminated, if only man knows how to live in the moment through the soul.

"If I knew this beforehand, things wouldn't be the same anymore', that's what people always say. Time is priceless, there's no amount of money that can revert the irreversible situation. Unfortunately, man would only come to realize when they have to live their entire life under the shadow of regrets. Let go all of the gains and losses in life, live your life with contentment today!

Let me share an inspiring phrase that serves as a life principle to me and I constant;y remind myself by pasting it onto my bathroom mirror. I would never miss seeing it while brushing teeth in the morning and evening and whenever I see it I'll silently repeat the phrase again and again to remind myself. It has never fail to make my day regardless if how bad my day was after seeing the phrase. You have to display this phrase at the most visible place, because man is forgetful. It would make a difference in your life if you would to look at this phrase single day.

The phase is - "When I am so bothered with the fact that i don't have a nice shoes to put on, I came across a person who has no feet, at the moment I felt as if there are completely no problems in life!"

We are living almost in paradise if we would to compare the occasional hardships that we have in life with those who are really unfortunate. Seek your pure and earnest heart and lead your life with contentment!