The State of Being !

If you think carefully, you would realize that the biggest reason why one is not happy today is because one wants to change the current state of being. It can be anything. The current state wherein one is not satisfied with one's position, wealth, power.e.t.c. and this is exactly the reason why one would try to bring in a change striving towards another state which one thinks is a better one. For e.g a middle class man who has wealth but wants to earn more money, an employee who wants to be promoted to a better position e.t.c. So in all these examples you would notice that one is trying to constantly change the state of one's being. Even if one reaches that aspired state, one thinks to attain another state, a state which one thinks to be a better one. The fact that one state is termed as better than the another and the fact that the human beings always consider that better state different from that of theirs, is a mere cause of dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

There is no harm in striving towards a better life but the definition of better is what one gets confused with. I have come across many people who always wanted to do something, be something or attain something, but when I speak to them I find that they were still not happy having achieved that thing and with that state of being. Most of the time they reply, "this is actually not what I wanted". Well, so the bigger question is, is it the state that you didn't want or you didn't know that this is how this state actually is?

So you see the problem is not in striving towards something, the problem is that under most of the circumstances, you didn't know if that is something you really wanted. So I say, be satisfied and happy with what you have and do full justice to everything that you have and then strive towards something that you think is a better state. But be sure what your really want.


-KGS