It’s Never Enough

Let me remind you something that you may already know. Mind and body are relatively never pleased with each other.

When you go to a buffet restaurant, you excite your mind and body with the array of menu placed in front of you. Tempted and to try everything you see, you grab a plate and begin to fill it up as you walk pass each buffet setting. You go to your table, place this overfilled plate and return to venture another section. A second plate is filled and possibly a desert is also brought back with you. On reaching your table, you eye feast on the amount of food that had enticed you. With the overwhelming hunger you begin to feel, you start tucking into the food, one by one, as much as you can.

Alternating between the plates you stacked up, you overfeed yourself, yet there are lots of food left behind. You will walk out of the restaurant, hours later, feeling somewhat contented, because you did not get to eat as much as you expected to do. You plan to return again the next time, to accomplish the unfulfilled task. Most of all, you feel you got your money’s worth today, although your mind and body say you could have eaten better. The question here is, “ Did you eat to your contentment or were you contented with what you ate? “.

The failure to be contented when needed, is the root of inherent greed.
Maximus @ MaximusPrimo.com

This is the problem with this world and the current society is the notion, that it’s never enough. Do not interpret this wrongly. When you pursue knowledge, and passionately derive your learnings, it will fulfill your life-experience as you seek it. However, the contentment process requires that you learn to recognize it at every level. This allows you to understand what you have learned, and providing enough room to challenge the reality.

You are not going to be gullible, in pursuit of knowledge, when you fail to question the validity of it. Look at things around you in a simple form, as they are, as nature have created it. The understanding to further and beyond will become relative to you, thereafter.

We are at a loss, at some point of our lives. For some, being lost throughout their lifetime is a norm, yet they still seek for an avenue to free themselves from the challenging loop. Whilst a few others, would have lived in their car for a good amount of time, before they found a possibility of a better home. They have continuously challenged themselves to pursue a better life, and quite a lot of them have succeeded. They learn from their experiences, to remain contented at every stage of their lives.

Others would have fought many wars, which was not theirs, returning home and living on the streets. Both were presented with a similar avenue of challenges in reality. It is not about your medical condition of having PTSD from your traumatic exposure on the battlefield. It is about your choice to recover from your negative experiences. Yes, it takes a strong mind. You are indeed one of them.

When you went to the battlefield, inexperienced and placed at locations not to your choice, you will surely have a path of uncertainty of not returning home alive. In reality, returning home safe and sound, without any major injuries, was indeed above expectation. It is never enough, as you have placed all the issues of your exposures during wartime upfront, instead of having your recovery prioritized. On your return, you expected total support from the government who sent you to the battlefield, but you are faced with lesser benefits than you expected. That is the reality.

I really am greatly concerned to see the amount of people beginning to live on the streets. This is not and never a healthy sign for any nation, no matter what your individual rights are. The safety of these individuals and the general public are left questionable. It is not uncommon to read and hear the number of times that people are stabbed, robbed or attacked by someone under these circumstances. It is never enough just to ignore these issues.

What shocked me, was when I got to know that syringes were provided to addicts as part of a health management program on blood-borne diseases. I am actually not able to decipher this, but then I am not a local at such places, to understand and experience their own sets of politics too. I know, it sounds easier said than done. I strongly believe it actual possibilities, due to my nature of thoughts. That’s who I am. Highlight these issues, I would rather be providing alternative resources for the recovery instead of encouragement to the dependency of supply. It is never enough to omit a certain group of society when their well-being is imperative to others within the general society.

When you place the importance of others in your society,
instead of whitewashing and patronizing critical issues,
the general good of all will begin to prevail.
Maximus @ MaximusPrimo.com

Taxpayers’ money is to be put to good use, as it was meant to be. Reading this blog, you will notice the duality in explaining, ‘It’s Never Enough’ . On one hand, we need to learn how to be contented at every stage of our life experience instead of overindulging in what we do. On the other, we need to extend ourselves to continuously help create a better environment for everyone to live in good health and harmony. Wishful thinking, is it?

Contentment is a state of mind, that allows you to be happy and satisfied. It is not a means to the end, but a continuity in what you do. You learn to find inner peace within yourself, and be able to reflect the same with people around you. The energy created from contentment is quite infections actually, on a good note, of course. People will soon observe the nature of your personality and be attracted to it, wanting to learn why you seem so calm and composed, most of the time.

By learning to adapt contentment in your personality, you will also be able to easily differentiate, what you want and what you need. It really makes a big difference in your lifestyle, if you choose to do so. The values learnt from being contented, is a major role player, for your nature of having to inculcate Positive Attitude within yourself.