I used to have this hypothesis that happiness was boring. People would ask me' are you happy' and most of the time I would tell them no, because happiness bored me.
I didn't know what true happiness was. Now that I know what it is, yes, I am happy.
What I don't think is that people are content with their lives. It seems we always want more of what we already have. With a few exceptions.
One exception I think is marriage. If you love your spouse to the point where you can't think of even being with another woman/ and or man, than I would think it is safe to say you are content.
I have never met my birth father and before I go any further I want to make it perfectly clear that it doesn't bother me. I am content with having the grandfather that I did have as I have written of before.
Since I have never met the man, I don't know if he had any other children. I can't prove that he has or hasn't and I am in no big rush to find out, but I wouldn't doubt it. What I am trying to say is this: I am content with the siblings that I know I do have. It is safe to say we love and care for each other and even though there are some rocky moments that doesn't mean if God forbid that one of us should get injured we wouldn't have the opinion of saying 'forget him or her'. We would be there the best way we could. With that being said, why would I go searching for other siblings. I am content.
However, as humans even though we do have some things we are content with and happy about there are perhaps tons of things we are not content with.
It could be your job, you or we always want a better one.
It could be our houses. It's nice, but we want nicer. Could even be your vehicle of choice. There is a long list of things.
Question is, however what makes us that way. Why can't we just be happy with the way things are? It may fall back to how I opened this blog. We get bored. The same day in day out routine gets old very quickly and before we know it we're thinking 'things need to change'
Does money make you happy? If you are either a multi millionaire or billionaire are you content with it? I think it would depend who you ask.
to some degree I would say no, because no matter how much money you have you always want more. Some people have the theory that if they were to win the lottery they would quit their jobs because money wouldn't be an issue any longer.
But what if you kept your job and its salary? Would that be greed?
One again, I think it would depend on who you were to ask.
Pastor Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddle back church in Orange County, California and author of the best selling book " A Purpose Driven Life" not only is a multi millionaire with the residuals of the book, but he is still working at Saddle back as their pastor.
But here's the thing. He doesn't get a salary. Not only that, but according to a fox news show he has payed back every single check he has ever received before the book started selling. You have to respect that, I think. There are few people in this world that would do that.
Are the inventors of anything we as consumers buy are they happy with the product? perhaps some are, perhaps some aren't. Think of Microsoft creator Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world. Do you think he is content with 'Windows 7'? Now I am by no means a computer genius, I can barely even figure mine out, but it would not surprise me that right now as I write this that he isn't thinking of what "8" might look like.
Once again,we have something or Gates has something that works, but he wants to make it better. Contentment. Few people have it completely.
Like I have said earlier, happiness can get boring but only with material things.
True happiness is knowing Jesus as you personal savior.
I have never gotten bored with that.
