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Lets think, what being successful means, and is it different from being happy? ? If success means achieving what makes us happy, then happiness is to feel that we are successful, is it not?  But where does this happiness come from? From being successful? We know, happiness doesn't come from money, and the worldly things, but everyone of us seems to be running after such things, a higher job, a bigger house, a faster car, a smarter phone, why? Because we attach being successful to having these things.   And, when we have these things, and we feel successful, we are happy, but then this happiness slips away, as there is something more, bigger or newer that we want!  We are running a race that is going on, for more and more, and mostly just being part of this race means that we are successful, but the question is what are we successful in?  In consuming more? In wanting 'more'?  In spending more? And when we cannot, we feel dissatisfied, incomplete, left ...

  We, who are all running after contentment, do we even know what contentment actually means? Does it mean being content, satisfied, and happy, with what we have, where we are, who we are with today?  Then I'd say that we are running after a butterfly, a transient, fleeting feeling, something that we would never achieve for a longer period. As where we are happy today, with whom, and with what we have, that keeps changing. We want something today, and really want it, and we think, that is what would make us content, and yes, it does feel like we are content, after we get what we want, for a little while. But then the same thing which made us content, is not enough. It doesn't satisfy us anymore. WE want something else, something more.  So, what if being content meant, just being content, like our nature to be satisfied with whatever we have, a value that keeps us happy always with ourselves, that would be the intrinsic, an internal  contentment. Just like Milton's Ha...