We are always being told to be happy and satisfied with our lives through the mainstream media, and a lot of us then accept the situations and conditions that aren't really conducive to fully succeed in massive ways.
We are taught: be grateful, be happy, you could've been in a worse situation than you are, be happy. Granted, gratefulness is a paramount virtue to possess, but being grateful doesn't mean I should be satisfied with my life. No matter at what level I may be at my life and no matter how much success I may think I might have attained.
I believe it is crucial as a human being to be unsatisfied and unhappy with your life no matter whether you think things are going well for you or not. Being unsatisfied will push you to always strive for more, push for more, and be hungry for more.
Even when you make a million rands annually, you should never reach a point where you are satisfied. Reaching a satisfactory point in your life, that would basically be the end of your life.
I see people being in debt, having to wake up when they don't feel like, they have to do things they don't like, and yet say they're happy and satisfied. The trap in this is that they stay in those conditions willingly because they're "grateful", life could've been worse. But guess what, life could even be better if you could stop being satisfied with being average.
Frankly, there's no need to be satisfied and happy with being an average Joe. We come from communities where the highest standard form of living is having a car, a house, married, and taking your kids to private schools. For me, that is just being average, why should you be satisfied with such a life?
I could have more, I could have a private jet, I could buy multiples houses and beach houses, I could go decide to eat breakfast in Paris and come back. I could sleep and wake up at any time I feel like. If my mind can conceive and comprehend that, I can never be satisfied with the normalised standards of having "made" it in life.
We need more people to do and achieve things we have never witness from people coming from our surroundings. We cannot have bonds, two cars, children and live paycheck to paycheck, and be satisfied with such a life.
Moreover, people have normalised being in debt as a way of life. You can be debt-free and have everything you want in life. And it all comes down to you being unsatisfied and unhappy with your current life no matter how many people may think you have succeeded.
It is important to be unsatisfied with your life because that will be your motivator to do more and hustle more to elevate from the level you're at. When are reach the next level, you also cannot get satisfied, you have to go to the next.
That not only helps you, but your family, community, and all the generations that can come after that. How long should our kids keep on inheriting debt? When they could inherit way more things, and I don't mean only material things but things of sentimental value as well.
We need to see more people from the same environments and upbringing as us doing massively shocking good things. This thing of being satisfied with being average does not necessarily serve our families and communities any good.
Of course, as people, we have different ambitions and we define success differently. Being an average Joe might be a success to you, that's okay. However, I think it is time we expand our imagination of where we could be in life. Expand our targets and our perspectives. One of the ways we can do that is to stop being satisfied with our lives.
Just because you are fed, you are clothed, you have a shelter over your head, you have relationships, that doesn't mean your life should now stop there. We could achieve a lot more as people, and be examples of how far we can reach. It all should begin with us by being unsatisfied. No matter how glamorous you may think your life is, be unsatisfied because you can always achieve way more than that.
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