Only few years ago that I learned its very core. And only then I started to ask for contentment than happiness.
A close friend shared with me this -- "Happiness is the excitement you feel from getting hold of the things you wanted to have. Contentment is the fulfillment you get for the things you do not have."
From then, I realized, contentment makes a big difference from happiness.
Contentment teaches me to deeply accept. To consider myself complete in absence of realization of my dreams. To be fulfilled for what i am today and not for what I can be tomorrow. To appreciate things despite of meagerness and imperfection.
Happiness teaches me to strive. To aim for something. To push myself to get hold of what my mind wants. To make an effort to grab opportunities. To undergo change. To reach the goal and feel the positive vibe.
I am not to choose one over the other, hence, it is a process -- that i must learn to value contentment to heighten happiness. What more I could have if i learn to appreciate everything when I started with nothing?
Consider our voyage to success -- would it be better if we feel contented in leading the road of our lives until we reach its end where happiness awaits? As saying goes, it is not the destination that matters more but it is journey..
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