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Pleasure And Being Satisfied Are Overrated
The vast majority of our actions is focused on reaching a certain amount of pleasure or satisfaction. We set goals, plan various things, watch certain others in order to be happy and feel a sense of pleasure.
While this makes sense in itself, the focus on that end goal is most often what we focus too much on.
The journey to get that pleasure or satisfaction is the main reason for those feelings to be present at the end of the day.
Keeping your eyes on the target is obviously crucial to not lose it and go through hard times. Yet, time after time, pleasure becomes the reason itself for the goal to exist.
This causes us to rush the journey instead of directly making it satisfying.
As mentioned once more in my post yesterday, small incremental steps are the best way to evolve, to change ourselves for the better, and eventually to reach goals we set.
All this is nice and all, but I also believe the pleasure and satisfaction received from reaching a certain goal or from the journey itself should be put aside.
Happiness is a laudable goal but true happiness comes from unexpected developments and, as such, should not even be entering your mind until it suddenly appears.
