Be happy with what you have,

An interesting post! I think we should be contend and satisfied with whatever we have and wherever we are at any particular time. Does that mean that we should not make any more effort or progress? Not necessarily! We should continue to improve. That may not necessarily mean having more. It can also mean to have a greater understanding of what is really important. Some things give us happiness by having them and some things give us happiness by not having them. And we need the wisdom to grasp which is which.

I think you are totally right with your statement! Not everyone can have everything they want, especially if they don't have a lot of money. It gets really frustrating when you see people going so deep into debt in order to "keep up with the Jones's" when they could get by with a lesser item to meet the need but they want the best. After I started dealing with cancer (and even before), I found that material goods were not that important, but when I express that idea to certain people they think I'm crazy because I don't have the best of everything. I look at it this way: you can't take it with you and so why should you waste the money getting something you don't really need. There is nothing wrong with having goals and dreams, but they should be based on reality and not some inflated ego making you think you need more than you really do. Have a great weekend!!!

Hello, I think we as a human being never satisfied. When we meets one wants another is raised. I think nothing is wrong in it. It inspires to be active. I am agree with you that we must be satisfied with our achievements. A satisfied and happy person can strive better than a unsatisfied person.

If we satisfy with what we have at this moment, then we shall not be able to work harder for the betterment. For me, I shall appreciate of what I have. But I must also think about a way to look for opportunities. This is very important in my life. I need to equip myself well to accept any challenge, to secure the future of my whole family.

I agree with you that there should be a balance between being happy and content, and also pushing forward and progressing. However, I think there are too many people who complain about some of the most smallest things, and they aren't grateful for what they have. People need to remember that there is always someone in a far worse situation that you are, so we should just live and be thankful.

i agree with you. be happy what we have and be thankful for what God gives to us. so it will make us easier to get our dream and it will make us keep at the distance with stress beacuse of our ambition that so big. i know tha, sometime ambition give us more spirit to do something better, but with too big ambition, when we fall and couldn't reach our goal, we will drop so far and i think that will so hurt. it is gonna be better if contented with what we have and keep trying to get our dreams., it will be so balanced and well.

As a Zen practitioner, I would say that life is whatever life is and whether you resist it or not, in that moment, it is the way it is. Fighting and resistance to the invetiable will only get it to persist anyway. Acceptance, always creates the "space" around a situation so that one can observe it, and comes to terms with it, and then it becomes what it is, and when we are ready, we will move on. Some things just have to have more of our attention than what we are willing to give. As you say, this does not mean we are to stop moving towards our goals in life, but we need to be prepared for challenges on the path as they make those goals much more worth achieving. _Derek

Sadly it takes alot of maturity to feel as though you are happy with things you have in your life. When we are younger we always want the latest and the best things to be current and maybe have "one up" on our friends. But alas once you settle down and have a family and such you have no room for those things... so you do things within your means and work with what you have.

Happiness is not measured by the things we possess but by how we appreciate the things we have. If we know how to be content with what we have, we can be happy no matter how simple the life we live. Learning to count your blessings will give you happiness you never really imagine.

Hello hotsummer, You are right, we have to be happy with what we currently have right now but it doesn't have to stop us from dreaming to have more. It is important that we are contented and happy that we have this and that but somehow if we want to have better future for our family and we want to help other people also we have to strive to achieve more. But we should always do good while we are achieving our dreams. Have a great day ahead of you and have fun mylotting!

I should say I Am very happy with what I have...I think I accomplished most of my dreams! but there are still a few left behind may be they were not to be I don't know...but what I do know is I still striving[at 66] to accomplish as much as I can and will do so until my time is up!

I like your point..sometimes I do want more,but then I count my blessing in life and realize that I am very blessed indeed, but that doesn't mean that I don't want otehr things anymore. Since i sometimes lose those blessings at some point. It would be nice to both now that we are lucky and blessed but also strive to be better.

I think we have to have balance. I think on the one side, we must be content with the things we can't change. We can't change our skin color or our height.. but we can change our weight and our fitness. I feel that IF we want to succeed at anything within our reach, we can do it IF we want it bad enough. However, if we are content to just live from hand to mouth each week, we can do that also. We have to be the judge of what we want to do in life. I feel that we can achieve a lot more than we do... we just have to have the 'want to's bad enough. We have to make the right choices... sometimes we make the wrong choices because we don't want to wait for the payoff down the line. We want what we want now.. and it might not be what is best for us. The choice is ours.

Yes,friend Be happy with what we have and we have to strive to reach our dreams and goals in life.In my opinion we won't regret what we can't received. It is all for our good we are like this, if is better it is well and good but at the same time if it is worst than this what can we do so be happy with what all we have.

I totally agrre with you. I am satisfied with my life. I do see need of improvement to reach my dreams. But i feel it will come with time. I can wait im not in a rush.

I am not quite sure how to respond to this. I am certainly glad for what I do have, I have a good family. But as for most of the other things I am not really "happy" with them. I have very very little money which makes it difficult to provide for the family. We live in a sub standard place, which may be affecting our health and we can not afford to move. I try to do the best with what I have and I am certainly glad that I do have what I have because I could have less. But where does happy begin and where does it end? I do not wish for a large amount. Just a little extra money to make sure my family has everything and a better standard of living is all. I have been told I can not work as my husband has an illness and I have to be here for the kids. My husband can not work because of his illness. I have looked for work athome but just keep running into scams. I can not afford to be scammed. So I can say that there are just some people that just do not reach their own level of happiness.

I think that if you truly want to be happy, you have to be happy and grateful for what you already have. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't have hopes and dreams to work for and I think that having them and working hard for them creates happiness in and of itself. I've realized that in life, happiness isn't always about achieving the goal but it lies in the journey. Good luck

You right, my friend. We must be happy in what we have in life. If those things in our life will have an additional blessings to us. Well, we need to thankful...even if we are not successful enough to get what we expect in life. We must be thankful...because we are here eat and drink. The complete happiness in life for me is contentment. Even if your rich but not contented in what you have. Your not completely happy because you not contented. You want more and more which is bother you much in your life.

I feel the time goes quickly,whether i am busy or not.i'am satisfied with my present life. i have the place to live in although it is not very luxurious.moreover,i have a goal that motivates me to arrange my schudule these days.yes,every one should value their time to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.Enjoy the day!

yean, agree with you. you wouldn't to comment it only by your own now.you should to think about how many you can get in the furture and how many happy days you got.in generally, somebody can't balcance with the real society,did'nt satisfied with your current situation.lol,i always think about my life ,my dream, my furture.i'm very disappointed with my situation.beacause i can't reach my dream or requests.but still very active with my work ,my life.since,i choice to survive in the world ,i must have ability to bear the difficult even the terrible things.all the things will go well.we can get many good things in life.