Contentment
There was this time when a few of my friends and I went to Mcdonalds for fun and some chats after having only one class for the whole afternoon. I think it was last last week? waaahh, I think it is a quite old to tell but, I was moved by what my friend was saying about a certain contestant in the question and answer portion at a beauty pageant. I think the question goes likes this, "If there was a certain wisdom that a person does not know, what could it be?" or rather I stated it, but the meaning is the same so I think it is all right. The contestant's answer was CONTENTMENT.
When my friend asks this question to us first, I do not know what to answer, because I, myself know that there are a lot of things that I still don't know for sure. But when he told us the answer, I was shocked at how brilliant that is and decided to have my opinion regarding this, please bear with me, ^^,
I do recognize that I also lack contentment most of the time. When I got hold of a thing that I wanted, I was feeling contented at some point, but when I see another thing that catches my attention, I will think that I must save money for me to buy that again, yet I have a new one at hand. Sometimes I deliberate that why, after I got hold of the thing I firstly wanted I will decide to get another one after sometime. But then I guess we cannot remove that part of a person's personality, because no one's perfect. Though of course there really are people who are contented with what they have or who they are.
We make mistakes, and that's what makes us learn. When we choose to do this and that, to have this or that, we make a choice, a choice that may or may not lead us contentment, but most of the time, I think, not, because people's mind are also unique, at some point in time, we like this, after some time, we just leave it at some place then have a new one.
No one can deny that they did not ever have discontentment, because it also have some positive sides to it, when we are contented at where we are or what we have, then we are in a stand still, we do not grow, do not gain more knowledge to face life's harsh challenges and the like. So what we now must think is that whether the discontentment that we feel will lead us to the good side or the bad side. The decision is left to us. But do not be afraid to choose the wrong one, the important thing is that, we learn from that and move on.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank the good Lord for helping us at our preliminary examinations, even though we have three tests postponed up to next year, hope all the result will go well for all of us. And I wish one of my professor to get well soon, he has been hospitalized that is why one of our tests are postponed.
To all, let us always do our best in facing life challenges... ^_^
When my friend asks this question to us first, I do not know what to answer, because I, myself know that there are a lot of things that I still don't know for sure. But when he told us the answer, I was shocked at how brilliant that is and decided to have my opinion regarding this, please bear with me, ^^,
I do recognize that I also lack contentment most of the time. When I got hold of a thing that I wanted, I was feeling contented at some point, but when I see another thing that catches my attention, I will think that I must save money for me to buy that again, yet I have a new one at hand. Sometimes I deliberate that why, after I got hold of the thing I firstly wanted I will decide to get another one after sometime. But then I guess we cannot remove that part of a person's personality, because no one's perfect. Though of course there really are people who are contented with what they have or who they are.
We make mistakes, and that's what makes us learn. When we choose to do this and that, to have this or that, we make a choice, a choice that may or may not lead us contentment, but most of the time, I think, not, because people's mind are also unique, at some point in time, we like this, after some time, we just leave it at some place then have a new one.
No one can deny that they did not ever have discontentment, because it also have some positive sides to it, when we are contented at where we are or what we have, then we are in a stand still, we do not grow, do not gain more knowledge to face life's harsh challenges and the like. So what we now must think is that whether the discontentment that we feel will lead us to the good side or the bad side. The decision is left to us. But do not be afraid to choose the wrong one, the important thing is that, we learn from that and move on.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank the good Lord for helping us at our preliminary examinations, even though we have three tests postponed up to next year, hope all the result will go well for all of us. And I wish one of my professor to get well soon, he has been hospitalized that is why one of our tests are postponed.
To all, let us always do our best in facing life challenges... ^_^