Some Causes of Life Dissatisfaction

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

This article shows how humanity has fallen into the trap of pleasures that they mistake for true happiness. And if we do not stop and start looking for the true Path, then we will remain hostage to passions …

Do you know that the thoughts that live in our heads do not belong to us at all, but are embedded in us with the help of various sources of information: media, advertising, culture, fashion, ideologies, religions, etc.?

A child is “hammered” from birth with different attitudes, beliefs, rules, and views.

As a rule, all these "codes" are averaged, and belong to the overwhelming majority of people. In turn, the overwhelming majority of people live a gray average life and also think gray.

So, from birth, every (!) Child learns that one needs to seek happiness, that only happiness can be the goal of life.

But for such an average person, thoughts cannot be deep, rather, they are superficial and therefore the idea of happiness is also superficial …

For most people, there are certain constituents of happiness.

Material wealth

The desire to be rich is in the first place in the priority of goals on the path to happiness. The average person sees the meaning of life in the possession of material goods. Owning various things, money and other assets brings the illusion of happiness, not happiness itself. How this substitution takes place - we will find out a little later.

2. Career.

If a person with a low level of consciousness has ascended to higher levels of professional activity, then for some time he is in a state of omnipotence and bliss. Moving up the career ladder as an end in itself will not make him happy.

3. Status.

Possession of any status that is significant for a particular individual allows one to have power over others and, therefore, gives a feeling of happiness for a certain period, as long as the status is important and significant. The ability to look down on others, to control them, to feel superior is what this particular person experiences as happiness.

4. Love.

The average person has only an idea of love, since the ability to love develops along with consciousness. Everyone repeats about love and presents it as the highest pleasure, as an opportunity to get pleasure from the object of one's love. How many songs have been composed about this! Everything is not about that, everything is not about that …

5. Family.

What is family in the mind of the average person? To make life easier, so that children are born and grow up. But at the same time, in order to make as little effort as possible, it was necessary to apply …

6. Rest.

A separate topic! Oh, most people only dream of rest and consider it happiness to go to lie on the beach in some foreign country. They count the days from vacation to vacation, which "will make them happy for a few days."

7. Various entertainment.

The whole world is striving for this. hundreds of corporations make billions from the entertainment industry. I got a moment of happiness again if I went to the cinema, club, restaurant, bar, etc.

8. Food.

For some, great happiness is to feed your stomach. There is such a category of people - gourmets, they find their happiness in having a tasty and satisfying meal. Now, as you will notice, there are more food offerings and more and more fat people.

9. Comfort.

Being in a state of comfort is like inaction, homeostasis. Unbearable discomfort - changes are unbearable, since any changes are associated with discomfort.

In my opinion, the main sources of modern "happiness" are listed. You can continue this list yourself.

Why am I writing all this? I am not indifferent to how modern society lives and therefore I hope that at least one of those who, perhaps, have not yet thought about other sources of happiness, will reconsider their values after reading.

At the beginning of the article, I wrote that since childhood, the child is "implanted with the codes of an average person." Coding goes through the media, advertising, television, fashion, ideology, politics.

A person encoded with such values looks at the world, compares himself with this world, and if he sees something inconsistent with general beliefs, rules and guidelines, then he concludes: “I am unhappy because I don’t have this, that and that, or I don’t such as that, that and that.

Together with this comparison, that very dissatisfaction appears and he becomes trapped in himself.

Why is it trapped? The fact is that everyone wants to get rid of their dissatisfaction, but making every effort for their own evolution is very time consuming and internal efforts, and therefore such a person chooses the path “like everyone else”, that is, strives for the same components that we have considered here and which the overwhelming majority live with.

But after all, genuine satisfaction with life has nothing to do with such parameters of philistine happiness.

Moreover, true life satisfaction is independent of external factors and causes.

Real satisfaction with life is an internal state and such a state can arise only in one - the only case: if you develop higher consciousness, know yourself from the inside and move from the personality (mask) to the essence, the core of your I.

Cognition of oneself, life from the true Self reveals the potential that you realize in the material world. It also allows you to be who you really are, rather than appear.

The search for pleasures cannot bring satisfaction with life, since pleasures have a direct connection (dependence) with passions, which make a person unfree, insatiable, closed on himself, driven by fears of not getting, not taking, not being in time.

Pleasures are transient, superficial, they lead away from the true Path, the very one for which a person appeared here on our planet.

In the process of thinking and experience, I noticed such a feature: often dissatisfaction with life happens just among those people who have greater potential than they use today, who are thinking, and also have unrealized abilities.

As if such people unconsciously know that there is something much more important, deeper than pleasure and material wealth in the Universe.

We can say with confidence: the one whom the Creator awarded more than others, will remain in the same dissatisfaction until he decides to go the difficult, but his own Path, until he abandons the imposed stereotypes and values, until he starts the journey inside yourself.

But this requires courage and will. And also courage. The courage to say no to others when they are asked to succumb to passions, the courage to be alone with oneself, the courage to decide on changes.

There is always a choice: to remain at the level of "embryonic happiness", to go with the flow; live a quiet, gray, shallow life; be the gray majority and chase after pleasures (to be a captive of passions) or take responsibility, show will, character and self-discipline, start inner work to develop consciousness and self-knowledge and find genuine lasting happiness, because it does not depend on external circumstances.

The path is long, difficult, but if you are not satisfied with life, then …..