by xdude » Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:59 pm
I don't know.
My personal experience is that we humans are rarely satisfied. No matter how good we have it, we have a tendency to be unhappy and think the grass is greener if only we had x, y, or z. Not everyone, but as a general pattern it seems common.
There is actually a good argument I read from a psychologist that this tendency to be unsatisfied could be a key reason in why humans have evolved intellectually, why we build structures, farm the land, build comfort devices, etc. We're simply not content to just survive. We want more, and are driven to create if that's what it takes to improve on what we have. So from that point of view our tendency to be unsatisfied is a positive trait, even though personally we're often miserable.
However the psychologist went on to discuss how this applies to relationships as well. No matter how good our relationships are, we have a tendency to believe they could be better still, or our lives could be better if only we or our lives were different. Then once we finally achieve that, again we're unsatisfied and want more, endlessly.
Personally I think the psychologist is/was on to something, and one of the things that we can introspect about ourselves is our own level of feeling "unsatisfied no matter what". I mean, to honestly see something about ourselves that is not easy to come to grips with. To ask ourselves, if we had the next thing we think we want, would we really be satisfied? Or having that, would we just be unhappy yet again, believing that the next thing/difference would make us happy?
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