A recent ad film on TV hit me when our Mr. SRK is standing on the rooftop of a skyscraper and is screaming out loud against satisfaction. Is satisfaction a bad quality to possess?? Isn't the state of being satisfied where we all want to be?? Then why was he cursing all Indians for having this quality??
A little thought into the matter brought out a new perspective to satisfaction altogether. As the cliched saying goes, 'there are always two sides of a coin'.. i began to wonder why it didn't strike me earlier.
Satisfaction as we all see it, usually refers to a state of being content, a state of peace !! Isn't it. I'm sure most would agree. Its good to be satisfied because it means not committing one of the seven deadly sins of GREED...
But where the problem lies is what we are satisfied with. Are we satisfied with too little or are we never satisfied with anything at all.
Ambition takes a backseat if we are satisfied with too little or with whatever we get and we never ask for what we deserve or never move out of our comfort zone to get what we can achieve, materialise our true potential.
On the other hand if we're never satisfied we're plain and simple greedy. Are we?? Are we being greedy by not being satisfied with what we have, ever.. cause if we are we're never going to strive for more and more and more. and is it justified to label us greedy just cause we aren't ??
Where does one draw the line??? :)
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My first question....
Are u looking at Greed as something bad?
and if you are...why is that so...
partly because of general opinion and partly i guess because of personal biases... you have any other opinion ???
yup i do...
The general opinion about 'greed' is somehow always in a negative perspective...
Its not really 'greed' that is bad...it is what I am being greedy for that decides it being good or bad..
Greed according to me is this wonderful innate quality that we possess...Because if I am not greedy for anything...I have actually defeated the whole purpose of my existence...
Think about it....
i once read somewhere in my hindi lessons that the word atyachaar ( im sure u know what that means ) is not only torture .. it comes from ati - achaar .. meaning extreme behaviour ..
my point of mentioning that hindi lesson is that extreme or excess of anything is bad including something u would consider perfectly normal ..
greed is is desire taken to the extreme .. hence my point .. you can want something but as long as its not an obsession its fine.. moderate behavior .. greed isnt moderate by any means ...
stemming from hindi itself...
greed's equivalent is swarth...
split that means...
swayam + arth
i hope you can see where I am going with this....
I think the general opinion about greed itself is flawed...
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