Contentment and Satisfaction
Contentment & Satisfaction A couple of months back I was consumed with the disease of envy. I used to be jealous of my own friends, their pay packages, their standards of living, their cars, their families... just about everything. What made this problem worse was the absurdness of this jealousy. You see, the things that I was envious of were not the things that I actually required. Instead, those things, if granted to me would complicate my life. For instance, I used to be jealous of my friends having a car. But I don’t require a car for my commute. It would simply stagnate in the parking lot and add to my woes. I was jealous of my friends having two and three children while I had only one. But given my resources, I can focus on the proper upbringing of only one child. In short, whatever I had been given was tailor-made for me. I then made a summary of all the favours I have been granted by God and the list put me to shame. I had no reason- actually no ri