Satisfaction
In today’s world when man is indeed embroiled in the rat race that constitutes an eternal part of his existence, he indeed finds little time to introspect. As he lives through the daily motions of life, he hardly ever gets the time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor. He hardly ever gets the time to truly be at peace; because every now and then he is posed with great challenges and even greater ambitions. Owing to this overly competitive lifestyle, he can hardly gain satisfaction from life.
Through his life, as man works to fulfill his personal or professional ambitions he never realizes the fact that he is indeed walking a road that leads to nowhere. Man cannot realize the fact that his ambitions and desires only end up infusing a sense of perpetual dissatisfaction in him. He also fails to realize the fact that the challenges that he could take on are indeed countless; but he has to his disposal only a few precious moments in his life. How he chooses to utilize those moments is entirely up to him. When man goes into an incessant streak of ambitious achievement, he often realizes at the end, that he never ever took time to appreciate the little things in life; that he never took time to smell the roses and feel the wind blowing through his hair; that he never took the time to self-introspect. In the end he realizes that he indeed took great efforts to find success; but what he found in the end was a hollow sense of unrequited desire and perpetual disquiet in his heart.
The reason as to why any ambitious man finally comes to this stage in his life is that he equates success with satisfaction. Man often desires satisfaction from his job. To facilitate this, he tries to find new and innovative ways within his line of work. In a sense, he tries to find that one thing in the organization that truly bears semblance to what he is. In a way, he tries to find his place, his identity and his soul in the well-oiled machine that the corporate world represents. At such times, he is deluded into accepting that his rate of productivity and his rate of success in the organization would essentially translate into satisfaction for him. Thus he goes ahead and works days on end, at times even bearing great dis-regard for personal problems and health issues; all for one thing; to gain a sense of achievement; through which he hopes to gain a sense of satisfaction and peace.
What man in the end doesn’t realize is that he cannot hope to get inner peace and satisfaction in the well-oiled corporate machine that is his organization. He cannot realize the fact that he has to search for that sense of satisfaction and bliss within himself. He can never get it anywhere else. Man also has to realize that he simply cannot hope to get perpetual satisfaction through success alone. He has to realize that to be truly satisfied in life, he has to have a spiritual outlook towards life. Only then will he find satisfaction amidst the chaotic channels of change that he encounters in his life; only then will he find the inner silence; and only then will he truly be unconditionally happy.
The aforementioned directives seem simple to the casual observer, but are surprisingly hard to implement. For the moment it would suffice to say, that man indeed has to search for ways to derive happiness and satisfaction from life. He cannot get it; rather he will not get it from his job. So what would any man do to truly be satisfied in life? Well I would say, indulge creatively. Every man should find that one thing, doing which truly yields him boundless satisfaction. It may be anything. Poetry, Music, Dance, Reading, Gardening; the list is indeed endless. But it would suffice to say that every man should indeed make it a point to nurture a hobby that would indeed inspire the creativity within him to flow boundlessly. Once he does that, he would indeed find himself in a better place; not just personally but professionally as well…
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February 22, 2010 10:37 am
