Happiness through Contentment - The Retreat Phase
I often wondered what is required for a person to feel Happy and Content. I know what makes one person happy and content, may not make another person happy and content. We might all live in the same country or on the same street or even in the same house, but we all have different life experiences, or we can interpret the same life experiences differently. For the most part our society conditioned us to believe that access to a continuous stream of increasing wealth and high end material goods, is needed for a person to be happy and content. Make a big money, live large and profile or die trying. What I realized is that this conditioning is often the main source of our misery and unhappiness. No matter how much increasing wealth and material goods we accumulate, most are still miserable and unhappy. It is always never enough and adds more complexity to our lives. The fear of not being able to maintain our increasing wealth and material goods often leads to increasing unhappiness, ...