“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future. Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
We all want contentment.
To be content is to be happy with what you have, to look upon your life and feel no envy, no bitterness, but simply a calm acceptance of what is and an elation of all the blessings therein.
This is the goal of every human being, whether they know it or not, because the only reason we strive forward is because we see our present state as being not enough, of being insufficient to our ambitions — we see something in the future that draws us. And in the fruition of that glittering image is contentment — knowing that we have done what we set out to do, that we did well.
In this day and age our view of what is enough has changed. The world is a small place filled with big and in most cases irrelevant things, and the more you are bombarded with the messages of society the more you…
