Contentment is happiness

India
August 30, 2010 12:24pm CST
Only when you are contended you can be happy. If your threshold for this elusive contentment is the measure of your ultimate happiness. Do you believe you can be contended or will this act as a dampener on you enthusiasm and energy to try and achieve more?
6 responses
• Philippines
1 Sep 10
Happiness is in our heart. We feel it because it gives us satisfaction. Even if we are not in abundance because we don't have enough wealth, still we appreciate what is in us at the present. What is important to us is the thing that make us happy. Material things will passed but true happiness will knock at our door only once. We have to make the most out of it.
@lexclark (21)
• Philippines
31 Aug 10
I agree. You are happy when you are contented. Because if not you are aiming for more that sometimes could lead you to stressfulness & anxiety and the result-unhappiness!
• Philippines
31 Aug 10
Your first statement isn't really true. You can be happy even when you're not contented. :p
• India
31 Aug 10
Hi, Yes, you have to be contented with your action and shouldn't worry about the consequences. That is to say, you have to put your sincerest efforts in every single job you do, no matter how insignificant it may seem. The result is often not in your hand, so let's not desire anything. The key to happiness is to enjoy your action without having any expectations from it's results. Doing job for the sake of doing it, I mean. Thanks. God bless you
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
30 Aug 10
Yes, I agree, that is indeed the key to happiness. I hope I will get there one day, but I am not there yet!
@MeNme1 (125)
• United States
30 Aug 10
I agree but because we are human we never be contented. We are still striving hard to get that contentment.