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How would one define happiness? To reach a goal? To achieve an objective?
These two, in the bigger scheme of things, is but a fleeting moment of satisfaction. You feel at the top of the world, top of your game.
Materially, I know I have enough for myself, my family and kids. But then, there will always someone out there with more. Admittedly it does make me feel "lesser" in a way, so I ask myself nowadays, how can I feel happy and at the same time not have feelings of sour grapes or covet another's success secretly by the side.:o
When I recently saw the program "The Other Final", which showed the bottom 2 FIFA teams, Bhutan and Montserrat playing their hearts out and sharing a "split" World Cup at the end of the match, it got me thinking, they are playing for the joy of it, they are both "winners" in the end.
So perhaps someday, success will not be tied to material possessions, but rather, the satisfaction that one has done their very best. And perhaps that will have to begin within ourselves.
Your thoughts please.
These two, in the bigger scheme of things, is but a fleeting moment of satisfaction. You feel at the top of the world, top of your game.
Materially, I know I have enough for myself, my family and kids. But then, there will always someone out there with more. Admittedly it does make me feel "lesser" in a way, so I ask myself nowadays, how can I feel happy and at the same time not have feelings of sour grapes or covet another's success secretly by the side.:o
When I recently saw the program "The Other Final", which showed the bottom 2 FIFA teams, Bhutan and Montserrat playing their hearts out and sharing a "split" World Cup at the end of the match, it got me thinking, they are playing for the joy of it, they are both "winners" in the end.
So perhaps someday, success will not be tied to material possessions, but rather, the satisfaction that one has done their very best. And perhaps that will have to begin within ourselves.
Your thoughts please.