Contentment
I welcome the newest visitors to my blog - readers from Poland, the Solomon Islands, Argentina and Turkey becoming the 47th to 50th countries. What Is Contentment? To content is willing to, satisfied. So contentment is satisfaction. On the other hand to contend is to strive, fight, dispute, quarrel. Is contentment complacency? In our modern pressure cooker society, if you are contented, will you be seen as complacent and/or lacking in ambition? Perhaps even lazy? As a country prospers, we eat more meat and rich foods. We can now have beef/chicken/pork/lamb or whatever 24/7 where once upon a time, we do so only on festive occasions with each was given only a small portion. Bus stops were farther apart which means we always walk more and work pace and work/life balance were better. Are our bodies designed to take such abuse of modern day lifestyle and work demands? I think how we continuously respond to things around us that places so much demands on us is what will eventually kill...